The Foucault Reader

by Michel Foucault

What does enlightenment mean after the catastrophes of the first half of the twentieth century?

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The Foucault Reader

by Michel Foucault

Other books by Michel Foucault

The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979 by Michel Foucault

The Order of Things by Michel Foucault

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

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The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
by Michel Foucault

The Order of Things
by Michel Foucault

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)

Scoop
by Evelyn Waugh