Taylor's Secret

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analyzing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main co-ordinates to map Foucault's work. But more than a guide to the work, "Michel Foucault: Key Concepts" introduces readers to Foucault's thinking, equipping them with a set of tools that can facilitate and enhance further study.;Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: Power, freedom and subjectivity -- Part I: Power -- 1. Foucault's theory of power -- 2. Disciplinary power -- 3. Biopower -- 4. Power/knowledge -- Part II: Freedom -- 5. Foucault's conception of freedom -- 6. Freedom and bodies -- 7. Freedom and spirituality -- 8. The practice of freedom -- Part III: Subjectivity -- 9. Foucault's theory and practice of subjectivity -- 10. Subjectivity and truth -- 11. Subjectivity and power -- 12. Practices of the self -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Index. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault's central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysing its meaning and uses across Foucault's work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main coordinates to map Foucault's work. --Book Jacket