Michel Foucault: Form and Power.(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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Michel Foucault: Form and Power. By DAN BEER. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre. 2002. x + 133 PP. ISBN 1-900755-57-2.

Following the publication of Dits et ecrits and the ongoing publication of the College de France lectures, Foucault scholarship is presently ruminating about the importance and range of the Foucault archive. In this atmosphere it is refreshing to find a work that takes us back to consider the text(ure) of one of Foucault's key publications, not by reiterating previous commentaries but by exploring 'Foucault's own use of particular narrative styles and forms of language' often...

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