The face of Foucault

Author: Wang Min'an
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: Michel Foucault is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Although Foucault passed away recently, his works have undeniably become classic readings. Today, the Foucault effect is pervasive in all aspects of the humanities. This book collects more than 20 essays that engage with Foucault from various perspectives, awakening his thoughts. The authors here, such as Roland Barthes, Edward Said, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Baudrillard, are all renowned contemporary thinkers who have conducted extensive and in-depth explorations of Foucault's archaeology, genealogy, subjectivity, power, ethics, and other themes. As Foucault himself said, his writing was to change faces. In this book, through the broad dialogue between these authors and Foucault, Foucault's diverse faces are presented one by one.