UID:
almahu_9947361148802882
Format:
1 online resource (374 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139002936 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Content:
Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Michel Foucault, one of the most important of contemporary French thinkers, exerted a profound influence on philosophy, history, and social theory. Foucault attempted to reveal the historical contingency of ideas that present themselves as necessary truths. He carried out this project in a series of original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge and its relation to power structures that have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Jan 2017).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521403320
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521403320
