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PublisherCornell University Press
ISBN-100801409799
ISBN-139780801409790
eBay Product ID (ePID)4544559
Product Key Features
Book TitleLanguage, Counter-Memory, Practice : Selected Essays and Interviews
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLanguage, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Semiotics & Theory, Movements / Critical Theory
Publication Year1977
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorMichel Foucault
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN77-004561
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal401
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1. Peasant Status and the Meanings of Serfdom 2. Peasants, Property, and Payments 3. Peasants, Religion, and the Church 4. Peasants, New Towns, and Communes 5. Peasant Agency Conclusion
SynopsisBecause of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from the French, with an introductory essay and notes by Donald F. Bouchard. Also included are a summary of a course given by Foucault at College de France; the transcript of a conversation between Foucault and Gilles Deleuze; and an interview with Foucault that appeared in the journal Actuel . Professor Bouchard has divided the book into three closely related sections. The four essays in Part One examine language as a "perilous limit" of what we know and what we are. The essays in the second part suggest the methodological guidelines to which Foucault subscribes, and they record, in the editor's words, "the penetration of the language of literature into the domain of discursive thought." The material in the last section is more obviously political than the essays. It treats language in use, language attempting to impart knowledge and power. Translated by the editor and Sherry Simon into fluent and lucid English, these essays will appeal primarily to students of literature, especially those interested in contemporary continental structuralist criticism. But because of the breadth of Foucault's interests, they should also prove valuable to anthropologists, linguists, sociologists, and psychologists.
LC Classification NumberP106.F67
