MICHEL FOUCAULT

By DAVID MACEY

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With Michel Foucault, Reaktion Books introduces an exciting new series that brings the work of major intellectual figures to general readers, illuminating their groundbreaking ideas through concise biographies and cogent readings.

There is no better thinker than Foucault with which to begin the "Critical Lives" series. Though reticent about his personal life for most of his career, Foucault, in the last years of his life, changed his stance on the relationship between the personal and the intellectual and began to speak of an "aesthetics of existence" in which "the life" and "the work" become one. David Macey, a renowned expert on Foucault, demonstrates that these contradictions make it possible to relate Foucault's work to his life in an original and exciting way. Exploring the complex intellectual and political world in which Foucault lived and worked, and how that world is reflected in his seminal works, Macey paints a portrait of Foucault in which the thinker emerges as a brilliant strategist, one who – while fiercely promoting himself as a maverick – aligned himself with particular intellectual camps at precisely the right moments.

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Book Details

ISBN: 1861892268
Categories:
All Products, Non Fiction, PHILOSOPHY
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2004
Number of Pages: 160
Author:
DAVID MACEY
Publisher: REAKTION BOOKS
Language: English
Weight: 0.25 g

About the Author

David Macey was born and raised in Belmont, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University in 1988. After graduation, he spent a year working as a cook in a soup kitchen in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, and then returned to Boston, where he began training to become a Roman Catholic priest.A year later, having determined that his vocation was of a different sort, he left the seminary and went to work for a major Boston bank. He returned to school in the fall of 1992 and earned a master’s degree in English at Brown University (1994) before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, where he earned a second master’s degree (1995) and his Ph.D. (1998) at Vanderbilt University. During the 1998-99 academic year, he served as a Lecturer in the Department of English at Vanderbilt and also coordinated the university’s Computer-Assisted Writing Program.