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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975

Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975

Foucault, Michel
Burchell, Graham

Paperback

Series: Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, Book 4

Philosophy

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 0312424051
ISBN13: 9780312424053
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 1 2004
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes.

The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who resemble their crime before they commit it. Building on the themes of societal self-defense in Society Must Be Defended, Foucault shows how and why defining abnormality and normality were prerogatives of power in the nineteenth century.

The College de France lectures add immeasurably to our appreciation of Foucault's work and offer a unique window into his thinking.

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