Foucault: The Key Ideas

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Foucault­ The Key Ideas Paul Oliver

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Contents Meet the author Only got a minute? Only got five minutes? 1

vii viii X

1

Themes of a life Early life and influences

1

University life in Paris

3 5

Early career development

2

3

Growing fame

10

Life as a leading academic

12

The excavation of knowledge

19

The development of knowledge

19

The nature of the episteme

21

The individual and society

25

The concept of discourse

27 33

The nature of power Power and the education system

33

Power and the state

38

Power in different historical periods

40 44

The exercise of power

4

so

The history of punishment The evolution of systems of punishment

so

Punishment and prison

54 57

Punishment, discipline and organization

5

6

67

Living outside the norms The history of attitudes towards sex

67

Differences between East and West

73

The medical model of sexuality

74

Foucault and homosexuality

77 87

The rational and the insane The social definition of insanity

87

The history of interpreting insanity

90

The advent of psychiatry

94

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7 Political engagement Involvement in party politics

96

The politics of revolt

98

The events at Vincennes

101

Politics and social reform

105

International politics

111

8 The nature of institutions

118

The rise of institutions

118

Institutions and the state

120

Institutions and social provision

123

Institutions and contemporary society

127

9 The role of the intellectual The concept of the intellectual

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