Possibly one off the most significant yet most overlooked works of the twentieth century, it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant.

Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control - and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole.

Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. Arguable his finest work, this classic is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas.

This corrected edition of Derrida's De la grammatologie adds a new index of the philosophers cited in the text, and makes the work more accessible and usable.

In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II.

Written by a sociologist and historian of ideas whose works include Madness and Civilization , The Archaeology of Knowledge , The Birth of the Clinic and Discipline and Punish .

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and the way the flow of information is controlled in the Western world.

This volume consists of writings in which Foucault himself explains, in straightforward and informal terms, different stages and aspects of his work and the preoccupations within the text. By bringing into clearer focus the political and intellectual environment in which these works were produced, Power Knowledge will allow readers to more fully appreciate their significance within contemporary ..

In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.

Develops the theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. This work offers a reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. It argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start.

This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze and Guattari began with Anti-Oedipus.

Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

Foucault's classic study of the history of medicine.

Is the first volume of the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Together with the second volume, A Thousand Plateaus, it is widely regarded as the single most brilliant work of Continental philosophy of the last forty years.

Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and exercise and diet), the permitted ways of courting young boys, and the economists' ideas about the role of women.

This is an introduction to poststructuralist theory which examines how poststructuralism might be used to theorize gender, identity and experience in patriarchal societies. This revised and updated edition includes an additional final chapter on the recent debate about feminism and postmodernism.

Offers an introduction to the author's polemical approach to culture. This work presents a revisitation of Foucault's History of Sexuality - and of his entire oeuvre - and also an attack on those philosophers, like Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, who believed that desire could be revolutionary.

Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Culture invests us with agency and choice, but also limits the possibilities. But the cultural script is not fixed, so we can intervene to increase the options. This introduction explains how, with illustrations from art and culture.