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"Society Must Be Defended"

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

By: Michel Foucault

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"Society Must Be Defended"

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

By: Michel Foucault

Foucalt deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war.

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348

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Macmillan

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0312203187

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9780312203184

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The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader

By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot

This collection of writings from Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot includes his most famous, lesser known, and hard to find writings that demonstrate his enduring importance to Caribbean studies, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and politically engaged scholarship more broadly.

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242

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Duke University Press

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1478021535

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9781478021537

The Essays

A Selection

By: Michel de Montaigne

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The Essays

A Selection

By: Michel de Montaigne

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary case for the equality of the sexes. In On Experience he superbly propounds his thoughts on the right way to live, while other essays touch on issues of an age struggling with religious and intellectual strife, with France torn apart by civil war. These diverse subjects are united by Montaigne's distinctive voice - that of a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous and utterly honest in his pursuit of the truth. M.A. Screech's distinguished translation fully retains the light-hearted and inquiring nature of the essays. In his introduction, he examines Montaigne's life and times, and the remarkable self-portrait that emerges from his works. Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection. If you enjoyed The Essays: A Selection, you might like Francis Bacon's The Essays, also available in Penguin Classics.

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484

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Penguin

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0140446028

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9780140446029

Hominescence

By: Michel Serres

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Hominescence

By: Michel Serres

According to Michel Serres, a process of 'hominescence' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again but what does the future hold? In this innovative and passionately original work of philosophy, Serres describes the future of man as an adolescence, transitioning from childhood to adulthood, or luminescence, when a dark body becomes light. After considering the radical changes that humanity has experienced over the last fifty years, Serres analyzes the new relationship that man has with diverse concepts, like the dead, his own body, agriculture, and new communication networks. He alerts us to the consequences of these changes, particularly on the danger of growing inequalities between rich and poor countries. Should we rejoice in the future, ignore it, or even dread it? Unlike other philosophies that preach doom and gloom, Hominescence calls for us to anticipate the uncertain light of the future.

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281

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474247067

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9781474247061

Rome

The First Book of Foundations

By: Michel Serres

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Rome

The First Book of Foundations

By: Michel Serres

Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation the roots of scientific knowledge to set theory and aesthetics. He explores the themes of violence, murder, sacrifice and hospitality in order to urge us to avoid the repetitive violence of founding. Rome also provides an alternative and creative reading of Livy's Ab urbe condita which sheds light on the problems of history, repetition and imitation. First published in English in 1991, re-translated and introduced in this new edition, Michel Serres' Rome is a contemporary classic which shows us how we came to live the way we do.

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253

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472590163

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9781472590169

Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault

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Madness and Civilization

A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

By: Michel Foucault

This text is a classic of French post-structuralist scholarship and is widely recommended on humanities courses across a variety of disciplines. Foucault's analysis of psychology is a devastating critique of the common understanding of insanity.

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310

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Psychology Press

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0415253853

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9780415253857

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"Society Must Be Defended"

"Society Must Be Defended"

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Trouillot Remixed

The Essays

The Essays

Hominescence

Hominescence

Rome

Rome

Madness and Civilization

Madness and Civilization

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