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McHoul, Alexander W. and Wendy Grace. 1993. A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject. Melbourne University Press. xiii + 140 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Person as a subject

Annotation

In this volume, Foucault's work is contextualized in reference to marxism, the history of ideas and structural linguists and his conception of discourse is set off from formal and empirical approaches. The discussion of power is placed in relation to a 'disciplined society' and the chapter on F.'s treatment of the individual as subject, focuses attention on F.'s history of sexuality.

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