Michel Foucault
10 best books like Michel Foucault (Didier Eribon): Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Discourse on Method, Orientalism, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, A Defence of Poetry, On the Shores of Politics, The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
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Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to...
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204227 |
By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the...
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism"...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
| Author | René Descartes |
| ISBN | 0872204200 |
La figura de Descartes como filósofo no ha sido objeto de unánime interpretación. Sobre todo en la actualidad se juzga y pondera su obra. no menos que su personalidad, de manera diferente. Para algunos, Descartes es de preferencia un metodólogo (W. Windelband, P. Natorp...) . Su preocupación,...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
| Author | Philip Sidney |
| ISBN | 0199110220 |
This is probably still the best way to finish a Defense:
"But if - fie of such a but! - you be born so near the dull-making cataract of Nilus, that you cannot hear the planet-like music of poetry; if you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry, or rather,...
| Author | Jacques Rancière |
| ISBN | 1844675777 |
It is frequently said that we are living through the end of politics, the end of social upheavals, the end of utopian folly. Consensual realism is the order of the day. But political realists, remarks Jacques Ranciere, are always several steps behind reality, and the only thing which may come to an end...
| Author | Wolfgang Iser |
| ISBN | 0801823714 |
تخيل معي أن ثمة عدسة ترصدك وانت مُنهمكاً في قراءة نص أدبي ، التقطت لك صورة خاطفة ، تسلمت الصورة وتساءلت ترى ما الذي كان يحدث في تلك اللحظة ؟
هذا الكتاب يجيبك...
| Author | Julien Gracq |
| ISBN | 1860462944 |
In the Ardennes Forest on the Belgian border the French guns point north-east, awaiting the German onslaught. One reinforced-concrete blockhouse in the heart of the forest is manned, this winter of 1939/40, by Lieutenant Grange with three men, who live in a chalet built over it. Cut off from the rest...
| Author | Édouard Louis |
| ISBN | 0374266654 |
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle—a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of-age story
“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern...
