Ethics (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michel Foucault
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Essays and philosophy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Essays
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Power, personal or social, Truth, Ethics, Learning or scholarship, Interviewing
Paul Rabinow, the University of California at Berkeley anthropologist who was a close associate of Michel Foucault during the philosopher’s last years, is the very capable editor of this first of three volumes devoted to publications of the author other than his principal works, such as the justly famous Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison (1975; Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1979) and the three volumes of his somewhat misleadingly titled Histoire de la sexualité: La Volonté de savoir (1976; The History of Sexuality: Volume 1, An...
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