The Cambridge companion to Foucault / edited by Gary Gutting. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Foucault / edited by Gary Gutting. [electronic resource]
The Cambridge companion to Foucault / edited by Gary Gutting. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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English
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1 online resource (xix, 465 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Foucault's mapping of history / Thomas Flynn -- Foucault and the history of madness / Gary Gutting -- The death of man, or, Exhaustion of the cogito? / translated by Catherine Porter ; Georges Canguilhem -- Power? Knowledge / Joseph Rouse -- Ethics as ascetics : Foucault, the history of ethics, and...
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Second edition.
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England
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2006.
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For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental ques...
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The Cambridge companion to Foucault / edited by Gary Gutting. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge companions to philosophy
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English
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1-139-00052-7
1-107-48132-5
1-107-48614-9
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194
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991023962541302626
