Michel Foucault Key Concepts Acumen

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main co-ordinates to map Foucault's work. But more than a guide to the work, "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" introduces readers to Foucault's thinking, equipping them with a set of tools that can facilitate and enhance further study. Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity and power is central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main coordinates to map Foucault's work. But more than just a guide to his work, Michel Foucault: Key Concepts introduces Foucault's thinking, equipping the reader with a set of tools that will facilitate and enhance further study of one of the most influential thinkers of recent years.--Back cover Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Power, freedom and subjectivity......Page 10 PART I: POWER......Page 20 1. Foucault's theory of power......Page 22 2. Disciplinary power......Page 36 3. Biopower......Page 50 4. Power/knowledge......Page 64 PART II: FREEDOM......Page 78 5. Foucault's conception of freedom......Page 80 6. Freedom and bodies......Page 94 7. Freedom and spirituality......Page 108 8. The practice of freedom......Page 120 PART III: SUBJECTIVITY......Page 134 9. Foucault's theory and practice of subjectivity......Page 136 10. Subjectivity and truth......Page 152 11. Subjectivity and power......Page 168 12. Practices of the self......Page 182 Chronology......Page 196 Bibliography......Page 198 Index......Page 205 Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main coordinates to map Foucault's work. --Book Jacket Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This book explores his central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self.