Book, Foucault Dictionary[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Michel Foucault (Poitiers, 1926 - Paris, 1984), widely known as a scathing critic of social institutions, published his first book, Mental Illness and Personality, in 1954. Twelve years later, with the publication of The Words and Things, the Philosopher achieved full recognition when addressing the image of the “death of man”, or the idea of ​​subjectivation. The concern with the search for truth was a constant in Michel Foucault's work, a fact that the author himself ratified in interviews throughout the 1970s. Judith Revel, author of this Foucault Dictionary, revisits the pages of this prestigious philosopher, and seeks to “explain” and direct the reader towards understanding Foucauldian thought. The dictionary form of the book, about facilitating showing the way, certainly demonstrates the author's concern in this sense.