1st Edition

Michel Foucault Subversions of the Subject

By Philip Barker Copyright 1993
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This unique and original study analyzes Foucault's interaction with the history of ideas, undertaking a genealogy of the subject that subverts conventional philosophical history to develop a distinctly Foucauldian intellectual history. Through a detailed account of Foucault's work and its relation to the history of ideas, Philip Barker shows how that history can be usefully reconceptualised using... Read more

Introduction  1.Contemporary Issues in the History of Ideas  2. History and Systems of Thought  3. A Diagram of the Middle Ages  4. Drawing the Subject  5. Subversions of the Subject  Bibliography  Index

Biography

Philip Barker is Honorary Research Adviser at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland.