The Postmodern Thought of Michel Foucault Related to Structuralism

Structuralism, post-structuralism, and the library: de Saussure and Foucault

Purpose – Explores the relevance of structuralism and post-structuralism to the field of library and information science (LIS). Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a literature-based conceptual analysis of the two philosophical movements, structuralism and post-structuralism, as represented by the seminal figures of Ferdinand de Saussure and Michel Foucault. Findings – The principles of ...

Michel Foucault. The will to truth

Wiener Library, London). And there were at least some medical "Resistance fighters". This book is certainly an Arbeitsbuch which can help to provoke further research, but in itself it is rather one-sided: the (scarce) attempts at interpretation it offers should especially be read and used with critical caution. But, as far as it goes, it has its merits and deserves wide attention. Alan Sheridan...

Faubion MICHEL FOUCAULT POWER

Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self

When I began to study the rules, duties, and prohibitions of sexuality, the interdictions and restrictions associated with it, I was concerned not simply with the acts that were permitted and forbidden but with the feelings represented, the thoughts, the desires one might experience, the drives to seek within the self any hidden feeling, any movement of the soul, any desire disguised under illu...

The Essential Works of Michel Foucault