Author: Michel Foucault File Type: pdf The definitive edition of Foucaults articles, interviews, and seminars.Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucaults courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers.Power (edited by James D. Faubion) draws together Foucaults contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culturemedicine, psychiatry, the penal system, and sexuality.From BooklistThe third volume of Foucaults miscellaneous writings--previous volumes covered Ethics (1997) and Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (1998)--gathers lectures and prefaces, group discussions and interviews. Foucault made no claim to be a political theorist, yet the nature of power and the ways it is exercised were a central concern of much of his work. The volumes thirty pieces include historical discussions (The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century, About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual in Nineteenth-Century Legal Psychiatry) and theoretical analyses (Truth and Juridical Forms, Governmentality, The Subject and Power), as well as interviews and examples of Foucaults own political activism (Letter to Certain Leaders of the Left). Mary Carroll American Library Association. ltAbout the AuthorMichel Foucault (1926-1984) is the author of Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, and many other books. James D. Faubion is a professor of anthropology at Rice University. He is the author of The Shadows and Lights of Waco and Modern Greek Lessons A Primer in Historical Constructivism. The definitive edition of Foucaults articles, interviews, and seminars.Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucaults courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers.Power (edited by James D. Faubion) draws together Foucaults contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culturemedicine, psychiatry, the penal system, and sexuality.From BooklistThe third volume of Foucaults miscellaneous writings--previous volumes covered Ethics (1997) and Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (1998)--gathers lectures and prefaces, group discussions and interviews. Foucault made no claim to be a political theorist, yet the nature of power and the ways it is exercised were a central concern of much of his work. The volumes thirty pieces include historical discussions (The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century, About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual in Nineteenth-Century Legal Psychiatry) and theoretical analyses (Truth and Juridical Forms, Governmentality, The Subject and Power), as well as interviews and examples of Foucaults own political activism (Letter to Certain Leaders of the Left). Mary Carroll American Library Association. ltReviewA rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself... -- Edward Said, The New York Times Book ReviewFoucaults work.leaves no reader untouched or unchanged. -- Edward SaidIgnore those who dismiss [Foucault] without having bothered to read him You must change your life. -- Talk Magazine

Author: Martin Gayford File Type: epub At thirty one, Michelangelo was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculptor or painter who had ever lived (and, by his enemies, to be an arrogant, uncouth, swindling miser).For decade after decade, he worked near the dynamic centre of events the vortex at which European history was changing from Renaissance to Counter Reformation. Few of his works - including the huge frescoes of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, the marble giant David and the Last Judgment - were small or easy to accomplish. Like a hero of classical mythology - such as Hercules, whose statue he carved in his youth - he was subject to constant trials and labours.In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.**ReviewAn absorbing book, beautifully told and with the writer fully in command of a huge body of research -- Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday One of our most distinguished writers on what makes modern artists tick ... It is very difficult to cut through the thicket of generations of scholarship and say anything new about David, the Sistine Chapel, The Last Judgement, the Basilica of St Peters or many of Michelangelos other masterpieces, but Gayford manages to do so by encouraging us to think - and look - at both the obvious and the overlooked Sunday Telegraph It is a measure of [Michelangelos] magnitude, and Gayfords skill in capturing it, that you finish this book wishing that Michelangelo had lived longer and created more -- Rachel Spence FT Only the most ambitious biographer can take on the talent of Michelangelo Buonarroti The Times About the Author Martin Gayford is art critic for the Spectator. Among his publications are A Bigger Message Conversations with David Hockney Man with a Blue Scarf On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud Constable in Love Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter The Yellow House Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles The Penguin Book of Art Writing, of which he was the co-editor and contributions to many catalogues. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children.