Bøger af Michel Foucault

Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.

Covers the topics Foucault helped make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality - emphasising Foucault's practical concern with discrimination, coercion and exclusion in human society.

Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.

"Forelæsningerne er et uvurderligt bidrag til nutidig politisk filosofi." Hans Hauge, Jyllands-Posten     I denne række epokegørende foredrag analyserer Michel Foucault, hvordan moderne stater udøver magt over sine borgere. Med afsæt i de studier af biopolitik, han havde indledt året forinden, introducerer Foucault begrebet ”guvernementalitet” som betegnelse for den særlige styringslogik, der – stærk inspireret af Kirken – brød igennem i 1700-tallet og stadig udgør grundlaget for moderne velfærdsstaters biopolitiske befolkningsomsorg.   Foucault afdækker, hvordan denne på en gang individualiserende og totaliserende magtteknologi søger at herske over sjælene. I stedet for at styre og disciplinere befolkningens adfærd introduceres en ny form for indirekte og diskret magtudøvelse. Forbud og tvang afløses af ”sociale teknologier” og ”biopolitik”, der tilskynder den enkelte til selv-disciplin og til at tage vare på og regere sig selv. Til den enkelte og statens bedste.     Sikkerhed, territorium, befolkning blev oprindelig holdt på Collège de France i 1978, men udkom først i 2004. Afdækningen af de pastorale træk og rationaler i nyere former for politisk rationalitet hører til nogle af de mest originale, men også omstridte indsigter hos den sene Foucault.     MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984) var professor i ”tankesystemernes historie” på Collège de France i Paris, og hører til blandt vor tids mest citerede og indflydelsesrige tænkere. Blandt hans hovedværker kan nævnes Galskabens historie (1961), Sindssygdom og psykologi (1962), Klinikkens fødsel (1963), Ordene og tingene (1966), Talens forfatning (1971), Overvågning og straf (1975) og det store ufuldendte Seksualitetens historie (1976-1984). Oversat fra fransk efter Securité, territoire, population af Carsten Sestoft og Peer F. Bundgård.

Arrogant, brillant, provokerende, oprørende, men aldrig kedelig er nogle af de ord pressen igennem årene har taget i brug, når den har omtalt Klinikkens fødsel. Her foreligger bogen i en oversættelse og med introduktion af Henning Silberbrandt.Foucaults udgangspunkt er den kendsgerning, at medicinen undergår en afgørende forandring i det attende århundrede. For første gang i historien bliver det muligt at beskrive medicinsk viden med den samme præcision, som tidligere kun tilhørte matematikken. Kroppen bliver et objekt, der kan kortlægges. Sygdom bliver genstand for klassifikation. Og lægerne begynder at beskrive fænomener, som i århundreder har befundet sig på tærsklen til det synlige, og det der var muligt at udtrykke.I Klinikkens fødsel giver filosoffen og den intellektuelle historiker et billede af denne dramatiske forandring i den medicinske viden. Michel Foucault viser i hvor høj grad, det vi betragter som ren videnskab også er et produkt af sociale og kulturelle holdninger – i dette tilfælde af den stemning, der herskede under den franske revolution. Hans bog kaster et nyt lys over oprindelsen til vores nuværende opfattelse af sundhed og sygdom, liv og død.Bogen genudgives nu i Hans Reitzels Forlags serie Klassikere og udkom første gang på dansk i 2000.

Biopolitikkens fødsel er en række forelæsninger, som Michel Foucault holdt ved Collège de France i 1979. Bogen ligger i forlængelse af hans forelæsninger fra året før, Sikkerhed, territorium, befolkning, og giver en uddybning af begrebet biopolitik – et af de vigtigste og mest epokegørende begreber i Foucaults forfatterskab.Biopolitik betegner en form for politisk styring, der på en uformel måde præger alle dele af livet. Foucault analyserer, hvordan der med opblomstringen af liberalismen i 1700-tallet bliver etableret en sådan form for gennemtrængende politisk styring eller guvernementalitet, der ikke arbejder med eksplicit håndhævelse af regler, men til gengæld bliver så meget desto mere effektiv ved at kategorisere visse forhold og fænomener som ”naturlige”.Ud over at analysere de principper, der kendetegner biopolitikken, ser Foucault nærmere på en række mere nutidige former for liberalisme, hvor man genfinder denne form for uformel politisk styring – f.eks. hos nyliberalistiske tænkere som Friedrich von Hayek og Milton Friedman.Oversat fra fransk efter Naissance de la biopolitique af Peer F. Bundgård.

Galskaben er, hvad vi gør den til. I dag klassificerer vi galskab som en ”sygdom”, der skal diagnosticeres og behandles af psykiatere og psykologer. I middelalderens samfund accepterede man de gale som en del af dagliglivet. Først fra omkring 1650 – da orden og struktur kom øverst på dagsordenen – blev de gale isoleret og spærret ind sammen med invalide, fattige, libertinere, folk med kønssygdomme og andre uønskede elementer, der afveg fra eller ”forstyrrede” fornuftens, moralens og samfundets orden. Foucault viser, hvordan de gale individers ekslusion modsvares af en vidensproduktion, der udelukker fornuften i alle dens former og manifestationer. Den psykiatriske beskrivelse af sindslidelserne er, skriver Foucault, forbundet med magten, hvis mål det er at korrigere og normalisere efter den rationelle fornufts rettesnor. Ved at isolere de gale kan de blive objekt for en egentlig psykologi, der hævder at befri eller kurere de gale, men i lige så høj grad er med til at fastholde nogle rigide forestillinger om normalitet og patologi. Sindssygdom og psykologi kan læses som en kort, kondenseret udgave af Foucaults disputats Galskabens historie i den klassiske periode fra 1961. Bogen blev brugt som antipsykiatrisk kampskrift i 1960erne og 70erne, men er i dag lige så aktuel som en analyse af magt og viden i moderne samfund. Sindssygdom og psykologi er oversat fra Maladie mentale et psychologie af Esbern Krause-Jensen. Oversættelsen udkom første gang på dansk i 1972. Denne nye, let reviderede udgave er forsynet med nyskrevet forord ved Jens Erik Kristensen, lektor i idéhistorie, Aarhus Universitet. MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984), professor i idéhistorie ved Collège de France, hører til blandt de seneste årtiers mest indflydelsesrige tænkere. Han er forfatter til en lang række artikler og bøger, deriblandt Ordene og tingene, Seksualitetens historie og Klinikkens fødsel.

Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. Arguable his finest work, this classic is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas.

This volume is a full transcript of the lectures given by Foucault in 1975-76. The main theme of the lectures is the contention that war can be used to analyze power relations. The book is coloured with historical examples, drawn from the early modern period in both England and France.

Collecting the writings and interviews of Michel Foucault outside his published monographs, this work contains Foucault's summaries of the highly influential courses he taught at the College de France from 1970 to 1982, as well as engaging and unusally candid interviews and Foucault's key writings on ethics.

Presents a collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche.

Written by a sociologist and historian of ideas whose works include "Madness and Civilization", "The Archaeology of Knowledge", "The Birth of the Clinic" and "Discipline and Punish".

Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.

This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled "Discourse and Truth," given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, they provide an unprecedented account of Foucault's reading of the Greek concept of parrēsia, often translated as "truth-telling" or "frank speech." The lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. In mapping the concept's history, Foucault's concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. These lectures--carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault's insights--are a major addition to Foucault's English language corpus.

Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Stort set alt, Foucault gør, gør han gennem en særlig form for kritisk filosofisk historieskrivning. Det gælder, når han skriver galskabens historie, den kliniske praksis’ historie, fængslets historie, humanvidenskabernes historie, styresystemernes historie og seksualitetens historie. Og det gælder, når han skriver kritikkens historie. Hos Foucault er kritikkens rolle uløseligt forbundet med friheden som problem og med ideen om at kunne skrive og tænke sig hen til horisonten af en mulig, endnu ikke realiseret radikal anden væren og viden. Foucaults foredrag “Hvad er kritik?” blev afholdt 27. maj 1978 for Det Franske Filosofiselskab. Foredraget samler på én gang op på den udforskning af forholdet mellem viden og magt, han har bedrevet i de hidtidige værker, og peger frem mod spørgsmålet om et etisk gentænkt selv.Louise Fabian har skrevet introduktion til Foucault og tekstens idemæssige aftryk. Introduktionen udfolder Foucaults kritikbegreb på tværs af hans øvrige forfatterskab og udforsker Foucaults genealogiske metode og kritiske gentænkning af begreberne “magt”, “seksualitet”, “galskab”, “frihed” og “kritik”. Fabian belyser Foucaults livtag med Immanuel Kant og Friedrich Nietzsche, og spørger til hvordan vi kan gentænke Foucaults kritikbegreb i dag.

Parrhesia, a way of speaking truthfully, was the last great problem Michel Foucault took on in his later years. He found within it a relationship to the truth that was distinct from the dominant mode in our culture, a different articulation among subject, knowledge, and power--the concepts that make up the core of his work. Foucault develops the concept of parrhesia in public space, in the right of citizens to speak frankly to power, and in the private sphere, in caring for the self. The exercise of the truth is a means to achieve freedom. La parresía (hablar caracterizado por la veracidad), fue el último gran problema abordado por su autor a lo largo de sus años finales. Foucault encontraba en la parresía una relación con la verdad distinta a la que había dominado nuestra cultura, que él juzgaba críticamente; una articulación diferente entre tres conceptos que conforman el núcleo de su obra: sujeto (subjetividad), saber (verdad, veridicción) y poder (gobierno). Foucault desarrolla el concepto de parresía en dos sentidos. Uno tiene lugar en el espacio público, se refiere al derecho del ciudadano libre a hablar francamente al soberano o poderoso y el otro se practica en la esfera privada, se refiere al cuidado del sí. El ejercicio de la verdad es vehículo para lograr la propia libertad.

"On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant's 1784 text, "What Is Enlightenment?" Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the "art of not being governed in this particular way," one that performs the function of destabilizing power relations and creating the space for a new formation of the self within the "politics of truth." This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of California, Berkeley in April 1983. There, for the first time, Foucault establishes a direct connection between his reflections on Enlightenment and his analyses of Greco-Roman antiquity. However, far from suggesting a return to the ancient culture of the self, Foucault invites his audience to build a "new ethics" that bypasses the traditional references to religion, law, and science"--

The thirteenth and final English volume of Michel Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France "What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the juridical act, the process or the procedure in the broad sense, is the regulated development of a dispute. And the intervention of judges, their opinion or decision, is only an episode in this development. What defines the juridical order is the way in which one confronts one another, the way in which one struggles. The rule and the struggle, the rule in the struggle, this is the juridical." -Michel FoucaultThe great French philosopher Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Collège de France from November 1971 to March 1972, entitled Penal Theories and Institutions. Within them, he presented for the first time his approach to the question of power, one that would become the focus of his research up to the writing of Discipline and Punish and beyond. His analysis begins with a detailed account of Richelieu's repression of the Nu-pieds Revolt (1639-1640) and moves on to show how the apparatus of power developed by the monarchy on this occasion broke with the system of juridical and judicial institutions of the Middle Ages, widening into a "judicial State apparatus"-a "repressive system," whose function was focused on the confinement of those who challenged its order.Here, Foucault systematizes his approach to a history of truth which is at the heart of his notion of "knowledge-power," based on the study of "juridico-political matrices" that he had begun in the previous year's Lectures on the Will to Know. Available for the first time in English, these lectures are an essential milestone in the development of Foucault's influential theory of justice and penal law.

"Foucault must be reckoned with." -The New York Times Book ReviewPraise for Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France Series"Ideas spark off nearly every page...The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s] but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday." -Bookforum"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture." -The New York Review of BooksIn 1981, Michel Foucault delivered a course of lectures that marked a decisive reorientation in his thought and of the project The History of Sexuality outlined in 1976. It was in these lectures that arts of living became the focal point around which he developed a new way of thinking about subjectivity. It was also the moment when Foucault problematized a conception of ethics understood as the patient elaboration of a relationship of self to self.In these lectures, which clearly foreshadow The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self, Foucault examines the Greek subordination of gender differences to the primacy of an opposition between active and passive, as well as the development by Imperial stoicism of a model of the conjugal bond, which advocates unwavering fidelity and shared feelings and which leads to the disqualification of homosexuality. Once more, his lectures demonstrate that Foucault "is quite central to our sense of where we are" (The Nation).

¿[Foucault] must be reckoned with.¿ ¿ The New York Times Book Review PRAISE FOR FOUCAULT¿S WORKS IN THE LECTURES AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE SERIES ¿Ideas spark off nearly every page¿ The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s] but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday¿ ¿ Bookforum ¿Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are¿¿ ¿ The Nation ¿[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions... [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.¿ ¿The New York Review of Books ¿These lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault¿s later work ¿ the relationship between power and knowledge.¿ ¿ Library Journal

In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal Madness and Civilization, sketching the genealogy of psychiatry and of its characteristic form of power/knowledge. Madness and Civilization undertook the archeology of the division according to which, in Western Society, the madman found himself separated from the sane. That book ends with the medicalization of madness at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Psychiatric Power continues this discourse up to the end of the nineteenth century, and the double "depsychiatrization" of madness, now dispersed between the neurologist and the psychoanalyst. Presented in a conversational tone, Psychiatric Power brings fresh access and light to the work of one of the past century's preeminent thinkers.

Im Jahre 1973 hat Michel Foucault an der Katholischen Universität in Rio de Janeiro drei Vorträge gehalten, in denen er seiner Idee einer neuen, einer anderen Geschichte der Wahrheit nachging. Ausgehend von den juristischen Praktiken und der Art, wie man über Schuld und Verantwortung unter den Menschen urteilte, untersucht Foucault, wie die Gesellschaft Typen von Subjektivität definiert hat, Formen von Wissen, und damit auch die Beziehung zwischen dem Mensch und der Wahrheit. In brillanten Analysen des König ödipus von Sophokles, methodologischen Reflexionen ausgehend von Nietzsche und historischem Material aus seinen Forschungen zum Gefängnis entfaltet Foucault eine Geschichte der Wahrheit, die ganz anders ist als jene, welche die herkömmliche Wissenschaftsgeschichte gerne erzählt.