Graphic Guides: Introducing Foucault : A Graphic Guide (Paperback)

from alwright1

This does offer a kind of biography and explanation of Foucault's ideas over his life, but the scorn shown by the authors for the subject, or I guess I should say object, make it a less than ideal introduction. It did, however, give me more context some of Foucault's ideas that I'm encountering i...

from elimatta

Over the last generation since the collapse of the Soviet empire, Foucault became the fashionable theorist in humanities and social sciences. Students with half an understanding flung his terms into vaguely relevant essay topics. Academics stuck to his theories and searched madly for empirical da...

from chaosmogony

Meh. Interesting approach with the cartoons and graphic-novel storytelling style, but I feel like a lot of the real ideas were watered-down and glossed over, rather than using the medium to its advantage. Maybe it's just the abstract and near-impenetrable material itself that's the problem, rathe...

from the.ken.petersen

At the risk of being repetitive, I am a great admirer of this series of books: as a autodidact, I would have been beaten by a complex character such as Faulcault, were it not for this tome. Faulcault was a philosopher, who 'got' political at the end of the 1960's, not in his native France but in ...

from the.ken.petersen

At the risk of being repetitive, I am a great admirer of this series of books: as a autodidact, I would have been beaten by a complex character such as Faulcault, were it not for this tome. Faulcault was a philosopher, who 'got' political at the end of the 1960's, not in his native France but in ...