Books by David Macey
“Macey cites a much deeper issue: Foucault had a horror of any fixed identity.” Read more...
Gary Gutting, Philosopher
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 best books on France in the 1960s, recommended by Richard Wolin
The author and historian Richard Wolin explains that French people in the late 1960s were desperate for a utopian political alternative.
The best books on Foucault, recommended by Gary Gutting
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same,” wrote Michel Foucault; a brilliant transdisciplinarian whose work spanned philosophy, history, social theory and literary criticism. He mined past ways of thinking so as to see present-day assumptions and practices afresh, explains the philosopher Gary Gutting.
