Hi Yvonne,
I think Abnormal is the best thing to use for this, a very accessible
text for beginners to Foucault (maybe even the most accessible . . .)
My reccommendation for further reading would be Georges Canguilhem's
The Normal and the Pathological. Regardless of whether you look at
Canguilhem, I think it's very important to understand that this is
directly where Foucault gets these themes from, and that he didn't
discover them himself, but merely expanded on or reinscribed them.
Best,
Mark
On 6/25/05, Yvonne Liu <yl90@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Yvonne Liu and I'm a PhD student in sociology at the CUNY
> Graduate Center in New York. I've encountered Foucault in my
> contemporary theory class, where we read "The Order of Things" and a
> media studies course on the regime of vision and the privileging of
> the observer. I'm teaching an undergraduate class in the fall at
> City College in Harlem on deviance, where I'd like to use Foucault's
> history of what constitutes "normal" and "pathological." So far, I'm
> using his lectures on the "Abnormal" from 1974 - 75 and "Discipline
> and Punishment." I would love any other suggestions on readings.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yvonne Liu
> YL90@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>
I think Abnormal is the best thing to use for this, a very accessible
text for beginners to Foucault (maybe even the most accessible . . .)
My reccommendation for further reading would be Georges Canguilhem's
The Normal and the Pathological. Regardless of whether you look at
Canguilhem, I think it's very important to understand that this is
directly where Foucault gets these themes from, and that he didn't
discover them himself, but merely expanded on or reinscribed them.
Best,
Mark
On 6/25/05, Yvonne Liu <yl90@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Yvonne Liu and I'm a PhD student in sociology at the CUNY
> Graduate Center in New York. I've encountered Foucault in my
> contemporary theory class, where we read "The Order of Things" and a
> media studies course on the regime of vision and the privileging of
> the observer. I'm teaching an undergraduate class in the fall at
> City College in Harlem on deviance, where I'd like to use Foucault's
> history of what constitutes "normal" and "pathological." So far, I'm
> using his lectures on the "Abnormal" from 1974 - 75 and "Discipline
> and Punishment." I would love any other suggestions on readings.
>
> Regards,
>
> Yvonne Liu
> YL90@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> _______________________________________________
> Foucault-L mailing list
>