Michel Foucault

Klappentext
Dan Beer uncovers a labyrinthine network of ideas and linguistic patterns beneath the surface of French philsopher and historian Michel Foucault's 1976 critique of sex and sexuality, La Volonte de Savoir. Through close textual analysis he addresses the issue of language and its effects on the world we inhabit. A fascinating and diverse range of references informs Michel Foucault: Form and Power: whether discussing the forgotten narratives of nineteenth-century European psychiatry, examining the scope of confessional literature, or engaging with the heated debates that surround Foucault's language and ideas, Beer's work entertains and informs. (Legenda 2002)

Zusammenfassung
This book refers to several aspects of Michel Foucault's work: the narrative form in which Foucault presents his account of power, the shapes and forms that this concept is seen to assume in his analysis, and the way in which he describes power giving form and substance to institutions.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Ars Erotica and Scientia Sexualis 2. Confessions, Silences, Unwritten Histories 3. Blood and 'Sex' Societies 4. Power's Forms and Movements 5. Power and the Individual 6. Conclusion