Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault's influential work spanned a wide array of intellectual disciplines his writings having been widely taken up in philosophy history literary criticism and political theory. <br/><br/>Focusing on the implications of Foucault's theories for education whilst characterizing them as provocative problematizing poetic and playful Lynn Fendler describes the historical context for understanding Foucault's ground breaking critiques. Including a discussion of his major theories of disciplinary power genealogy discourse and subjectivity this text provides generative explanations of concepts using analogies to the Internet and to food in order to connect Foucault's theories to everyday experience.