Foucault
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A01=Lois McNay
Author_Lois McNay
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cultural studies
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especially social
gender studies
literary theory
political theory
social sciences
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- ISBN 9780745609911
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 1994
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings on governmentality and the self. McNay argues that the later work initiates an important shift in his intellectual concerns which alters any retrospective reading of his writings as a whole. Throughout, McNay is concerned to assess the normative and political implications of Foucault's social criticism. She goes beyond the level of many commentators to look at the values from which Foucault's work springs and reveals the implicit assumptions underlying his social critique. The author also provides an account and assessment of recent literature on Foucault, including that of Habermas and Taylor. She discusses Foucault's position in the modernity/postmodernity debate, his own ambivalence to Enlightenment thought and his place in recent developments in feminist and cultural theory.
Lois McNay is the author of Foucault: A Critical Introduction, published by Wiley.
