Michel Foucault

Few contemporary book cover designers have given me more pleasure than Peter Mendelsund. Here are just a few examples of his work: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Double and The Gambler Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections   Walter Benjamin, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings   Roberto Calasso, K.   Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms   Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge   Michel...Read Full Story

There’s an interesting phenomenon called the stereotype threat , or, in other words, the threat of stereotypes about one’s capacity to succeed at something: when the belief that people like you (African-Americans, women, etc) are worse at a particular task than the comparison group (whites, men, etc) is made prominent, you perform worse at that task. (Some say that this is a type of confirmation bias , a tendency for people to prefer information that confirms their existing preconceptions...Read Full Story

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Excerpted from James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault : 'Foucault's own youthful epiphany was not nearly so sudden. It all began, as he later recalled, in a darkened theater one night in the winter of 1953. 'The curtain went up, and revealed a barren set. Just the skeleton of a tree. On stage appeared two tramps. "Nothing to be done," says one. "I'm beginning to come round to that opinion," says the other. 'Of no discernible age or calling, the tramps chatter idly. '"What about hanging...Read Full Story

In this article we will talk about writing such interesting papers as essays on Foucault.   So, what do you know about Michel Foucault? First of all, we should admit that he was not only a great philosopher, but also a historian, sociologist and critic.   Here are several ideas that you may use for writing essays on Foucault: You may start essays on Foucault with a description of his works and the impact they had on sciences. His writings served as a basis for different applied...Read Full Story