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Author McHoul, A. W.

Title A Foucault primer : discourse, power, and the subject / Alec McHoul and Wendy Grace
Published London : UCL Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages)
Series Interpretations
Interpretations
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foucault's Counter-history of Ideas; Marxism; History of ideas; Structural linguistics; Critique; Discourse; Non-Foucauldian conceptions of discourse; Foucault's rethinking of discourse; Discourse and politics; Power; An ontology of the present; A disciplined society; Scientia sexualis; Analysis; The Subject; The sexual subject in ancient Greece; Sex and the self from Plato to Plutarch; Gender and sexuality: continuing problems; Bibliography; Index
Summary An introductory guide to one of the seminal thinkers in social and cultural theory. The text provides an explanation and critique of Foucault's idea in relation to Marxist theory, structural linguistics and social thought, organized around central
Notes Originally published: Melbourne, Australia : Melbourne University Press, 1993
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-132) and index
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Form Electronic book
Author Grace, Wendy.
ISBN 0203501128
9780203501122
9780522863048
0522863043