by Michel Foucault · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483106549
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«El orden del discurso» is the philosophical essay by Michel Foucault, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (80 pages, in Spanish).
Foucault analyses the relations between knowledge and power from his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France (1970). He studies the prohibitions and taboos that regulate access to speech, the marginalisation of discourses such as madness or delinquency, and the Western will to truth, questioning categories such as subject, consciousness and history.
It is number 126 in the Fábula collection from Tusquets Editores and was published in November 1999.
For readers interested in contemporary philosophy, discourse theory and critical thought.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
