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The issue of the institution is not addressed systematically anywhere in the literature on Foucault, although it is everywhere to be found in Foucault's writings. Foucault and the Critique of Institutions not only interprets the work of Foucault but also applies it to the question of the institution. Foucault is a master at analyzing the web of social relations ("power") that effectively shape ("normalize") the modern individual. While these social relations are smaller and finer than institutions, institutions are, by Foucault's account, saturated with such relations. This study is the first sustained account to follow up the implications of Foucault's provocative theses about power for the analysis of institutions.

Foucault and the Critique of Institutions offers a set of preliminary essays that raise basic questions about the theoretical character of Foucault's thought and then several groups of other essays that go on to take up the practical issues raised by his work. Joseph Margolis and Jitendra Mohanty address one of the most complex problems posed by Foucault's texts: his status as a philosopher. Mark Poster explores the problem of the "self" in Foucault, while Judith Butler focuses her searching investigation of the self on its gendered nature. Joseph Rouse examines the functioning of the natural sciences within the institutional setting of the university and the academic profession, while Chuck Dyke and Mary Schmelzer present vigorous critiques of the normalizing power of the university. Robert Moore and Mark Yount offer original studies of the implications of Foucault's work for the workplace, labor law, and affirmative action. Finally, John Caputo studies Foucault's famous history of madness and raises the question of the possibility of exercising a "healing" and not merely a "normalizing" power in the mental hospital and the church.

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• Part I Introduction(p. 1)
• Institutions, Normalization, and Power(p. 3)
• Part II Foucault and Critique(p. 25)
• Foucault as a Philosopher(p. 27)
• Redeeming Foucault(p. 41)
• Part III The Self and Its Sex(p. 61)
• Foucault and the Problem of Self-Constitution(p. 63)
• Sexual Inversions(p. 81)
• Part IV The University and Its Disciplines(p. 99)
• Extralogical Excavations: Philosophy in the Age of Shovelry(p. 101)
• Panopticism and Postmodern Pedagogy(p. 127)
• Foucault and the Natural Sciences(p. 137)
• Part V The Workplace(p. 163)
• Law, Normativity, and the Level Playing Field: The Production of Rights in American Labor Law(p. 165)
• The Normalizing Powers of Affirmative Action(p. 191)
• Part VI Healing Institutions(p. 231)
• On Not Knowing Who We Are: Madness, Hermeneutics, and the Night of Truth in Foucault(p. 233)
• Notes on Contributors(p. 263)
• Index of Names(p. 265)
• Index of Subjects(p. 269)

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Caputo and Yount have brought together an excellent collection of essays on a broad range of topics, all of which are loosely related by their application of the ideas and concepts of Michel Foucault. The predominant theme is the relationship between institutions and power, and each of the essays explores, by closely analyzing various institutional practices, Foucault's claim that institutions are conditioned and used by power, as opposed to the more traditional view that power is conditioned and used by institutions. The resulting analyses subsequently discuss both the manner in which various institutional practices and discourses are made possible, and the manner in which other possible practices and discourses are disqualified and excluded. The institutions analyzed in these essays include sexuality, academics, the workplace, and health care. Caputo and Yount have also included two critical essays on Foucault--one by Jitendra Mohanty, the other by Joseph Margolis. These two philosophers, as well as most of the others in this collection, are respected and distinguished philosophers in their own right. The result is a collection of thoughtful and thought-provoking essays sure to find its place among the list of essential secondary readings on Foucault. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty. J. A. Bell; Southeastern Louisiana University

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John Caputo is David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and author of four books, including Radical Hermeneutics (1987).

Mark Yount is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Joseph's University.