In this new addition to the Collge de France lecture series, Michel Foucaults historical enquiry into the uses and techniques of power and knowledge finds itself directed towards a study of the birth of psychiatry. Psychiatric Power shows not only how Western societys division of the mad from the sane began, but also how society, medicine, and law and their treatment of the mad...(展开全部)

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to whi...(展开全部)

In "Psychiatric Power," the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the College de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal "Madness and Civilization," sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. "Madness and Civilization" undertook the archeology of the division according ...(展开全部)

米歇尔•福柯（1926年10月15日－1984年6月25日），法国哲学家和历史学家。他对文学评论及其理论、哲学、批评理论、历史学、科学史（尤其医学史）、批评教育学和知识社会学有很大的影响。

Présentation de l'éditeur Le cours de l’année 1973/1974 marque une rupture dans la démarche intellectuelle de Michel Foucault. D’un côté, il continue le travail commencé avec l’Histoire de la folie, les procédures, concepts qui font apparaître l’objet « folie », mais de l’autre il rompt avec ses problématiques anciennes : il s’intéresse de plus en plus aux stratégies (plutôt qu...(展开全部)

皮埃尔·布尔迪厄（1930—2002），法国当代著名社会学家，思想家和文化理论批评家。1954 年毕业于巴黎高等师范学院，1982 年成为法兰西学院唯一的社会学教授，社会科学高等学院（EHESS）学术总监。主要著作有《区隔》《实践理论大纲》《帕斯卡式的沉思》《男性统治》等。

皮埃尔·布尔迪厄（1930—2002），法国当代著名社会学家，思想家和文化理论批评家。1954 年毕业于巴黎高等师范学院，1982 年成为法兰西学院唯一的社会学教授，社会科学高等学院（EHESS）学术总监。主要著作有《区隔》《实践理论大纲》《帕斯卡式的沉思》《男性统治》等。

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. . The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of cate...(展开全部)

Picador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984 . The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault's lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the birth of a new governmental rationality--seeking...(展开全部)

The course given by Michel Foucault from February to March 1984, under the title The Courage of Truth, was his last at the Collège de France. His death shortly after, on June 25th, tempts us to detect a philosophical testament in these lectures, especially in view of the prominence they give to the theme of death, notably through a reinterpretation of Socrates' last words–'Crit...(展开全部)