by Michel Foucault · GEDISA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474320909
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This book by Michel Foucault, titled 'The Truth and Legal Forms', is an essential work for understanding the genealogy of power and its influence on the configuration of social relations. Based on five lectures given at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1973, the author explores the ways of establishing truth from ancient Greece to the modern state. Foucault examines the birth of the modern prison and the strategies of surveillance and control of power, offering a theory in full development that would culminate in his main work, 'Discipline and Punish'.
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.
