Michel Foucault

Foucault's influence on the social sciences and more recently in criticism has grown significantly, despite the almost overwhelming volume and complexity of his work. O'Farrell takes a layered approach to provide a broad overview to Foucault's work, situating her analysis within cultural studies and focusing on the mechanics of Foucault's approach, setting him within his own historical and cultural settings, describing the works in chronological order, analyzing his work against five closely related assumptions relating to order, history, truth, power and ethics. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR