Browse by category
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Society Must Be Defended is taken from a series of lectures given by Foucault at the College de France in 1975-76. Using war to analyse power relations, he contended that politics is ultimately a continuation of battlefield violence, and that ingrained ideas of sovereignty and individual rights are atte ...Show more
The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983--1984 by Michel Foucault
$42.95 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
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 convicti ...Show more
The Foucault Reader by Foucault, Michel
$26.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews. ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$22.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated? The first part of Michel Foucault's landmark account of our evolving attitudes in the west shows how the nineteenth century, far from suppressing sexuality, led to an explosion of discussion about sex as a separate sphere of life for study and ...Show more
The History of Sexuality 2 - The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
$27.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
$55.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the Christian notion of the 'flesh' - a transformation that would define ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Michel Foucault
$14.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledgeis the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about sex in the West means that, far from being liberated, we are in the process of making a science of sexuality that is devoted t ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
$29.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
The Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault
$9.96 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Foucault's writings on power and control in social institutions have made him one of the modern era's most influential thinkers. Here he argues that punishment has gone from being mere spectacle to becoming an instrument of systematic domination over individuals in society - not just of our bodies, but ...Show more