{"title":"Michel Foucault","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"discipline-and-punish","title":"Discipline and Punish","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in French in 1975, Michel Foucault’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces the transformation of punishment from the brutal public spectacle of the eighteenth century to the quieter, more pervasive systems of discipline that shaped modern institutions. Opening with a harrowing account of a public execution, Foucault moves through the histories of prisons, schools, barracks and factories to examine how authority increasingly operates through observation, routine and the regulation of bodies. At the heart of the book is Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, an architectural model of surveillance in which the possibility of being watched becomes a powerful means of control. For Foucault, the modern prison is not an isolated institution but part of a wider network of practices that train individuals to monitor and discipline themselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCombining historical inquiry with a radical critique of power, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenged familiar accounts of penal reform as a straightforward march towards greater humanity. Foucault instead asks how apparently progressive institutions produce new forms of conformity, classification and social control. Its influential ideas have travelled far beyond the history of punishment, shaping debates about education, policing, medicine, surveillance and the relationship between knowledge and authority. Demanding yet remarkably prescient, the book remains one of the defining works of twentieth-century philosophy and a compelling invitation to reconsider the invisible structures that govern everyday life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Michel Foucault, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Foucault has found his appointed subject and has written his most forceful book.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Clifford Geertz, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64013064733002,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-history-of-sexuality-volume-1","title":"The History of Sexuality, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in French in 1976, Michel Foucault’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e challenges the familiar belief that modern Western society has simply repressed sexuality and forbidden open discussion of desire. Instead, Foucault argues that the modern era has produced an extraordinary proliferation of ways to speak about, classify and regulate sex, from medicine and psychiatry to education, religion and the law. He traces how these discourses turned sexuality into an object of knowledge, making intimate life central to the exercise of social power. At the heart of his inquiry is a provocative question: not merely what society has forbidden us to say about sex, but how and why we have been encouraged to speak about it at all.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConceived as the opening volume of a much larger project, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History of Sexuality, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e transformed debates in philosophy, history, gender studies and social theory. Its account of the relationship between power, knowledge and the individual helped establish new ways of thinking about identity and the institutions that shape it. Foucault’s argument remains challenging precisely because it unsettles the distinction between liberation and control, asking whether greater visibility and more expansive language necessarily make us freer. Elegant, unsettling and intellectually far-reaching, this is a defining work of twentieth-century thought whose questions continue to resonate in contemporary debates about identity, medicine, politics and the body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The history of sexuality—that is, the history of what functioned in the nineteenth century as a specific field of truth—is to be understood, therefore, from the viewpoint of a history of discourses.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Michel Foucault, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History of Sexuality, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe History of Sexuality, Volume 1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Fascinating but ferociously abstract speculations on the modern obsession with sex.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64013101400394,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"madness-and-civilization","title":"Madness and Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in French in 1961 as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFolie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l’âge Classique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Michel Foucault’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e examines how European society came to define, confine and treat madness. Moving from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance and into the Enlightenment, Foucault traces the changing boundaries between reason and unreason, paying particular attention to the mass confinement of the poor, the unemployed and the mentally ill in seventeenth-century France. He challenges the assumption that the rise of modern psychiatry represents a straightforward triumph of compassion, suggesting instead that new forms of medical knowledge brought their own systems of authority and exclusion. Throughout, the book asks who has the power to define sanity, and what a society reveals about itself through the people it casts out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA formative work in Foucault’s intellectual development, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadness and Civilization\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e helped establish his distinctive approach to history, examining how institutions and systems of knowledge shape what a culture accepts as truth. Its account of the changing relationship between madness and reason has influenced philosophy, the history of psychiatry, cultural criticism and debates about the treatment of those considered outsiders. Although its historical interpretations have been vigorously contested, the book remains compelling for the questions it raises about confinement, normality and the authority of experts. Both a history of exclusion and a searching critique of Enlightenment confidence, it invites readers to reconsider the fragile line between the rational and the unreasonable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness, has been established only on the basis of such a silence.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Michel Foucault, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadness and Civilization\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMadness and Civilization\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“M. 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