282 Pages
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Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through comparing the writings of the principal exponents of Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas - with those of Michel Foucault. Peter Miller suggests that these two... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Subjectivity and Power; Part One: Critical Theory; 1. Max Horkheimer and Cultural Critique 2. Herbert Marcuse and Subjectivity as Negation 3. Jurgen Habermas: Human Interests, Communication and Legitimation; Part Two: Michel Foucault: Genealogies of the Subject; 4. Unreason to Madness: The Knowledge of Subjectivity 5. The Birth of Medicine and the Individualisation of the Body 6. The Human Sciences and the Birth of Man 7. From Disciplinary Power to Governmentality; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
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Peter Miller
