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Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. 'Foucault is not who you think he is', writes Veyne; he stood neither on the left nor on the right and was frequently disowned by both. He was not so much a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who never ceased in his work to reflect on 'truth games', on singular, constructed truths that belonged to their own time. A unique testimony by a scholar who knew Foucault well, this book succeeds brilliantly in grasping the core of his thought and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that have so often characterized the interpretation of Foucault and his work.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Foucault
• Author: Veyne
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780745646428
• ISBN: 0745646425
• ID: 04132366
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Weight: 264 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 139 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 2010

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