by Michel Foucault · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070740703
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«La volonté de savoir» is the philosophical essay by Michel Foucault, first volume of Histoire de la sexualité, in paperback (248 pages, in French).
Foucault examines how Western sexuality, far from being silenced, generated from the Victorian era a multiplication of medical, juridical and confessional discourses. Intertwining power and knowledge, he explains that sex became an object of knowledge and regulation, and that this dispositif produces forms of subjectivity.
Work originally published in 1976; this edition corresponds to the Tel collection, no. 248.
Reference work for philosophy students and readers of critical theory interested in the work of Michel Foucault and in the analysis of power.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
