E-grāmata: Lives of Michel Foucault

Admirable. Yields a vivid picture of Foucault. * New Republic * David Macey's The Lives of Michel Foucault is the third, and probably the last, Foucault biography to appear in English. It is also the best: fuller in its source and freer in their use and preferable, in terms of moral intelligence, maturity and poise. * Times Literary Supplement * For those who want to know more about the controversial French philosopher, "The Lives of Michel Foucault" is the place to start. An exemplary biography. -- Chris Goodrich * LA Times * Macey's revealing, careful bigraphy, which traces Foucault's constantly evolving thought against the backdrop of his political activism and travels, draws on interviews with friends and colleagues and on the cooperation of Foucault's former lover, Daniel Defert. * Publishers Weekly * Macey does an excellent job of tracing the development of his subject's thought. * Kirkus * Macey was one of the best intellectual historians of his generation. His biography of Foucault will outlive a great many other books in its field. -- Neil Belton * Guardian * David Macey's endeavour was to break down the various elements of Michel Foucault's life into their many different facets. And he did so with great success. The author delightfully weaves together the key moments in Foucault's life and writing with his activist interventions and his engagement in the struggles around homosexuality, mental illness and prison. He thus brings out a fascinating, enigmatic character of extraordinary intelligence, who succeeded in composing a polyphonic oeuvre that was sadly cut short by his untimely death. Through the pages of Macey's book we discover the itinerary of a doctor's son who became an accomplished scholar, a pupil of Georges Canguilhem, a friend of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida, a great reader of Freud, Lacan and Sartre, both philosopher and historian. In this fine biography we find a man of phenomenal erudition, who would be transformed by his journey to the United States. -- Elisabeth Roudinesco