Foucault and His Interlocutors

by Arnold I. Davidson

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Containing the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this book also features the most significant essays by the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues, and collaborators take up his major claims, from his first to final works, and provide us with the authoritative context in which to understand Foucault's writings. This volume also includes several important works by Foucault show more previously unpublished in English. The other contributors are Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres, and Paul Veyne. Here for the first time is the French Foucault. This volume offers lucid and important texts that will appeal to students and professors at every level of study. It is essential reading for all scholars of twentieth-century philosophy and critical theory. show less

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Arnold I. Davidson is Professor of Philosophy and of Divinity and a member of the Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago.

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Philosophy, Nonfiction
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194Philosophy & psychologyModern western philosophyPhilosophy of France
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B2430 .F72 .F68Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPhilosophy (General)By periodModernBy region or country
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