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Beginner's Guide to Foucault Texts
The newcomer to Foucault's work may consider tackling the entirety of a book like 'The History of Sexuality' or 'Discipline and Punish' a bit too much too soon. Instead, those readers may prefer to sample Foucault in the form presented in this commonly used reader.
Extracts from most of the major texts, and covering many of Foucault's themes, are reproduced here with a useful Introduction by Rabinow. Foucault on authorship, truth, power, the archeaology of knowledge, the geneaology of discourse, the practices and techniques of the self - are all represented here.
Also particularly noticeable from the extracts in this reader is the regularity with which Foucault uses a sort of negative rhetoric: "I do not intend to write a history of this or that... by author I do not mean this that and the other... we identify with neither this, nor with that..."
Foucault is very often at pains to tell us what he is not saying, and readers who are put off by these disclaimers may be forgiven for wondering what exactly it is that he is saying.
Tags: authorship discipline discourse foucault identity knowledge power practices self
Foucault and Power
Here you will find an excellent examination on Michel Foucault's ideas of power. Gidden's postulates that 'institutional refelxivity' may be an appropriate term applied to Foucault's power hypothesis. This really amkes sense and challenges Terry Eagleton' ideas (in 'Ideology') which challenge Foucault.
This is the gem in Gidden's ouvre. You must investigate