Bücher der Reihe Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault

Presents a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists: Peter L Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jurgen Habermas.

Explores Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial.

Examines the relevance of Foucault's work for developing an understanding of those issues which lie beyond the limits of Marxist theory and analysis - issues such as 'individualising' forms of power, power-knowledge relations, the rise of 'the social', and the associated socialisation of politics.

Intends to isolate the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan. This title demonstrates that the question of ethics was at once the most difficult and the most intimate question for these two authors, offering a complex point of intersection between them.