Product Description: The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the notion of “truth-telling” in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction...read more

Product Description: Compelling and highly influential, Michel Foucault's Madness is an indispensable work for readers who wish to understand the intellectual evolution of one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. Written in 1954 and revised in 1962, Madness delineates the profound shift that occurred in Foucault's thought during this period...read more

Analyzes the specifics of mental illness and the forms attributed to it by psychology and determines the social conditions that define the status of mental illness

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security...read more

Product Description: Foucault analiza, en este segundo volumen, desde El sobrino de Rameau al perfil trágico de Antonin Artaud, pasando por Nietzsche y Nerval. Toda una historia de la locura se dibuja y socava los presupuestos mismos del poder y la sabiduría occidentales.

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: this liberal governmentality.  This involves describing the political rationality within which the specific problems of life and population were posed:  "Studying liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics". What are the specific features of the liberal art of government as they were outlined in the Eighteenth century?  What crisis of governmentality characterises the present world and what revisions of liberal government has it given rise to?  This is the diagnostic task addressed by Foucault's study of the two major twentieth century schools of neo-liberalism:  German ordo-liberalism and the neo-liberalism of the Chicago School...read more

Product Description: Nacimiento de la biopolítica. el curso dictado por Michel Foucault en el Collège de France entre enero y abril de 1979. se inscribe en una línea de continuidad con el curso del año anterior. Seguridad. territorio. población. Luego de mostrar que la economía política marca en el siglo XVIII el nacimiento de una nueva razón gubernamental Foucault emprende el análisis de las formas de esa gubernamentalidad liberal...read more

Product Description: Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tradition of philosophy.

Product Description: In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age...read more

Product Description: Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978. Taking as his starting point the notion of  "bio-power," introduced in his 1976 course Society Must be Defended, Foucault sets out to study the foundations of this new technology of power over population...read more

A second collection of lectures by the influential philosopher addresses the role of psychiatry in the modern criminal justice system, the theme of societal defense against criminals, and how to define 'abnormality' and 'normality.'

Product Description: El curso sobre los anormales, dictado en el Collège de France entre enero y marzo de 1975, prolonga los análisis que Michel Foucault consagró desde 1970 a la cuestión del saber y el poder. A partir de múltiples fuentes teológicas, jurídicas y médicas, Foucault enfoca el problema de esos individuos peligrosos a quienes, en el siglo XIX, se denomina "anormales" y los define en tres figuras principales: los monstruos, los incorregibles y los onanistas...read more

Product Description: Para este filósofo deconstruccionista, las relaciones de poder existentes en nuestra sociedad emanan en un momento dado, históricamente identificable, en la guerra y por la guerra. De aquí desprende Foucault las dos hipótesis medulares desarrolladas a lo largo de la obra: que el mecanismo del poder es fundamentalmente la represión, y que la política es la continuación de la guerra por otros medios...read more

Product Description: Este curso, dictado en el Collège de France en 1978, marca el inicio de un nuevo ciclo en la enseñanza de Foucault. En él indaga en qué consiste una nueva tecnología de poder surgida en el siglo XVIII, cuyo objeto es la población y que aspira a lograr un equilibrio global: "la seguridad del conjunto con respecto a sus peligros internos"...read more

Product Description: Clásico entre los clásicos modernos, este ensayo construye una historia de la razón a partir de la historia de la locura, buscando en ambas las constantes que definen su entorno cultural. Este hecho, que modifica profundamente el perfil interior de la experiencia occidental, es el objeto de la mirada de Michel Foucault...read more

Product Description: Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question.In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and above all serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories...read more

Product Description: Este curso, que fue dictado en el Collège de France entre noviembre de 1973 y febrero de 1974, retoma el análisis de La Historia de la locura desplazando su objetivo y modificando el terreno donde se despliega, así como las herramientas conceptuales que pone en juego, para captar, en el punto donde se forman, las prácticas discursivas de la psiquiatría: un "dispositivo" de poder en el cual se anudan elementos tan heterogéneos como discursos, modos de tratamiento, medidas administrativas y leyes, ordenamientos arquitectónicos, etc...read more

Product Description: The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most prestigious institutions. Faculty at the Collège give public lectures, in which they present works-in-progress on any subject of their choosing...read more