Size: 5x0x8; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ]

Size: 5x0x8; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Contemporary signature of Macksey on fep, else unmarked. x, 133 pages; 22 cm. "The French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is recognized as a writer of extraordinary skill and inventiveness, but his writing is seldom examined closely. Concentrating on La Volonte de savoir (1976), Foucault's critique of human sexuality and modern sexual attitudes, Dan Beer uncovers a labyrinthine network of ideas and linguistic patterns at work in this celebrated text. Whether discussing the forgotten narratives of nineteenth-century European psychiatry, examining the scope of confessional literature in the Middle Ages, or engaging with the heated debates surrounding Foucault's intellectual legacy, Beer's work entertains and informs." "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.