Elden, Stuart
Foucault: The Birth of Power
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509507269
- author:
- Elden, Stuart
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Wiley
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
- Genre:
- Sociology Political Science Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Stuart Elden's Foucault: The Birth of Power is a detailed intellectual history of Michel Foucault as writer, researcher, lecturer and activist. This book uses newly available archival material to reconstruct Foucault's work and preoccupations during a pivotal period in his life. Foucault's time in Tunisia had a profound impact on his politics, leading him to return to France and become involved in activist work concerning prisons and health issues such as abortion rights. Elden shows how these concerns influenced Foucault's writing, particularly in contrast to his later major publication, Discipline and Punish. Through a careful analysis of archival material, including documents from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Elden sheds new light on Foucault's intellectual development during this period, revealing a more complex and nuanced picture than that presented by his most famous work.
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