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Author
Series
Works volume 1
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. In 1994, ten years after his death, his French publisher, Gallimard, issued Dits et ecrits, the first complete collection of all Foucault's publications outside his monographs. It is a great pleasure for The New Press to bring the most important work from Dits et ecrits - including much never before published in the United States - to English-speaking readers...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In this work, the author suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
"Explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam Chomsky. As an outspoken critic of the press and one of America's leading dissidents, he has unrelentingly dissected how our much-acclaimed democratic freedoms often mask an irresponsible use of power. Shocking examples of media deception permeate Chomsky's critique of the forces at work behind the daily news." --container.
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 122
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Americans today seem to be more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Our differences are not just political and moral, but philosophical and even spiritual. Red and Blue America hardly seem to live in the same reality. Something has gone terribly wrong with the American political community. It has been a long time since the people of the United States fully exercised their sovereign authority to choose the officials in government whose primary...
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