10. Unfinished tasks: solidarity, resistance, and global society
Stephen Eric Bronner
in Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
The Frankfurt School never really thought about the world beyond Europe, the Soviet Union, and the United States. But there exists a global totality in which the most basic principles of ...
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11. Foucault after Foucault
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Foucault died leaving a large body of lectures and drafts unpublished. Of particular importance were thirteen years of lectures he delivered at the Collège de France, from 1971 to 1984. ...
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9. Modern sex
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Foucault was as unwilling to accept an identity based on his sexuality as he was on any other area of his life. His interest was, as always, an academic one. He was interested in gay ...
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10. Ancient sex
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Towards the end of his life, Foucault’s topic of exploration turned to the ethical formation of the self, which emerged from his analysis of modern power relations. ‘Ancient sex’ looks at ...
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7. Michel Foucault and governmentality
Richard Whatmore
in The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction
‘Michel Foucault and governmentality’ talks about Michel Foucault, who is often associated with the poststructuralist and postmodernist ideas of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and ...
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2. Bee Larvae and Onion Soup: Culture
John Monaghan and Peter Just
in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Bee Larvae and Onion Soup’ considers ‘culture’ — the human characteristic to conceptualize the world and to communicate those conceptions symbolically. Varying definitions of culture are ...
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1. Before sexuality
Véronique Mottier
in Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
The ancients did not define themselves in terms of their sexual identities. The idea of classifying people according to sexual partner would have seemed bizarre to them. Sexual culture ...
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4. The state in the bedroom
Véronique Mottier
in Sexuality: A Very Short Introduction
The sexual revolution of the 1960s, brought on by reliable methods of contraception, the legalization of abortion, and the relaxation of moral controls led to greater openness, legal ...
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1. Madness unbound
Andrew Scull
in Madness: A Very Short Introduction
‘Madness unbound ’ explores social responses to madness. Our interpretations of it, and our notions of what is to be done about it, have varied remarkably over the centuries. Our early ...
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Introduction
Chris Shilling
in The Body: A Very Short Introduction
Our embodied existence can be seen as a foundation on which to build an empirically informed yet distinctive approach to the analysis of society, identity, culture, and history. The ...
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4. Governing bodies
Chris Shilling
in The Body: A Very Short Introduction
Theories of governance—how rule or regulation is accomplished across nations, institutions, and organizations—have long included a focus on strategies states pursue in seeking to control ...
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Gary Gutting
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction presents a wide-ranging, but non-systematic exploration of some highlights of Foucault’s life and thought. Beginning with a brief biography ...
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1. Lives and works
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Very little is known about Foucault’s personal life and we can only speculate about its relation to his work. Why do we need to? Much of Foucault’s existence was centred on writing. ‘Lives ...
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5. Psychiatry under attack—inside and out
Tom Burns
in Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
‘Psychiatry under attack’ focuses on the contradictions inherent in psychiatry. The mind–brain relationship is the big issue in psychiatry. It would be simple if psychiatry were just about ...
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Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction
James Naremore
Film noir is usually associated with a series of darkly seductive Hollywood thrillers from the 1940s and 1950s—shadowy, black-and-white pictures about private eyes, femme fatales, outlaw ...
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6. The afterlife of noir
James Naremore
in Film Noir: A Very Short Introduction
Noir continues to be an unusually flexible, pervasive, and durable mood or narrative tendency, embracing different media and different national cultures. Its moods and imagery have been ...
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2. Reading Stoics today: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and even Seneca
Brad Inwood
in Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction
For modern readers, despite not being typical representatives of the school, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius are the foundation for our understanding of Stoicism for two reasons. First, ...
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6. The masked philosopher
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
Foucault sometimes admitted and sometimes denied that he was a philosopher. ‘The masked philosopher’ asks what a philosopher is and ponders whether Foucault really was a philosopher. Is ...
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3. Politics
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
It is difficult to classify Foucault in political terms and he was quite proud of that. ‘Politics’ explains that Foucault, like many other intellectuals of his generation, grew up in the ...
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5. Genealogy
Gary Gutting
in Foucault: A Very Short Introduction (2 ed.)
In using the term ‘genealogy’, Foucault proclaimed his connection to Nietzsche. ‘Genealogy’ analyses what Foucault thought about the genealogical method, how it compared to Nietzsche’s, and ...
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