by Michel Foucault (1980)
"Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent - and terrifying - portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives" Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds."
Slavoj Žižek
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theorist Slavoj Žižek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto for several 'lost causes'.
Frigga Haug
Um aus der Geschichte zu lernen, erfahrungsgeladene Theorien zu ergreifen und dabei die Bodenhaftung, die Verbindung zum gelebten Leben zu behalten, gilt es, die Widersprüche nicht zu fürchten, sondern im Gegenteil aufzuspüren und fruchtbar zu machen. Das Ermitteln des persönlichen Anteils an der Gesellschaft ist ein Schritt in diese Richtung. Herrschaft und Unterdrückung reproduzieren sich als Verstrickung, als Geflecht aus Kompetenz und Unterworfenheit, Widerstand und Zustimmung. Nur mit der Bereitschaft, die scheinbare Sicherheit gewohnter Denkschemata infrage zu stellen, lässt sich marxistische Gesellschaftsanalyse für demokratischen Aufbruch einsetzen. Dieses Buch erzählt die Bildungsgeschichte eines Begriffs und zugleich die einer feministischen Marxistin: In der Erkundung eigener Praxen und Gewissheiten zeigt Frigga Haug Forschung als einen nicht nur Gesellschaft durchleuchtenden, sondern auch autobiographischen Prozess. Marxismus-Feminismus ist ein im Gehen erkundeter Weg. (Quelle: Argument Verlag)
Robert L. Perkins
For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by Princeton University Press, this series of commentaries addresses all the published texts of the influential Danish philosopher and theologian.
sous la direction de Jean-Philippe Pierron
Philosophes et psychiatres nourrissent des capillarités secrètes et des questionnements communs. Souvent, la méditation du philosophe se met à l'école de ces situations et de ces visages de l'humain malade qui habitent des masques que l'on croit inhabitables, "horla", et que lui rapporte le psychiatre. Sous le souci de biologiser la maladie mentale, le savoir et le savoir-faire de la psychiatrie font le pari de l'humanité et de la nécessité de la relation, demandant: où demeure-t-il celui dont on dit qu'il est un "demeuré"? Où est vraiment l'homme, lorsque nous découvrons combien nous sommes pressés de tracer très vite, trop vite, la frontière entre le délire et la réalité?