The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey

Foucault made this transition from the doyen of up-and-coming French structuralist theorists to someone who inherited Sartre’s mantle of the engaged intellectual

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The Lives of Michel Foucault

by David Macey

Other books by David Macey

The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

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The Lives of Michel Foucault
by David Macey

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Confessions
by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)