AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: "Society Must Be Defended" : Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976 by David Macey, Michel Foucault ISBN: 0-312-42266-0 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Foucault Is Being Ironic
Comment: The last thing Foucault wants to do is defend society.

Rating: 5
Summary: Offering an unusually insightful perspective
Comment: Capably and collaboratively edited by Mauro Bertani and Allesandro Fontana, "Society Must Be Defended" is a collection of French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault's eleven lectures given at the College de France from 1975 to 1976, and which are ably translated into English for an American readership by David Macey. Offering an unusually insightful perspective and wisdom on a wide variety of educational topics ranging from the origin of feudalism, to the functions and domains of racism, to Hobbes' ideas on war and sovereignty, and a great deal more, "Society Must Be Defended" is a very thought-provoking and instructive collection from a uniquely informed and informative point of view. As Michel Foucault writes about this compilation of his views: "The role of history will, then, be to show that laws deceive, that kings wear masks, that power creates illusions, and that historians tell lies. This will not, then, be a history of continuity, but a history of deciphering, the detection of the secret, the outwitting of the ruse, and the reappropriation of a knowledge that has been distorted or buried. It will decipher a truth that has been sealed".

Similar Books:

	Title: Abnormal : Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault, Arnold I. Davidson ISBN: 0312203349 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $28.00
	Title: Fearless Speech (Foreign Agents) by Michel Foucault ISBN: 1584350113 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95
	Title: Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Volume III by Michel Foucault, James D. Faubion, Robert Hurley, Paul Rabinow ISBN: 1565847091 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95
	Title: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 , Vol 1) by Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, Robert J. Hurley ISBN: 1565844343 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95
	Title: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).) by Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen ISBN: 0804732183 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95