Download or read book Foucault For Beginners written by Lydia Alix Fillingham and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault’s work has profoundly affected the teaching of such diverse disciplines as literary criticism, criminology, and gender studies. Arguing that definitions of abnormal behavior are culturally constructed, Foucault explored the unfair division between those who meet and those who deviate from social norms. Foucault’s deeply visual sense of scenes such as ritual public executions, lends itself well to Moshe Süsser’s dramatic illustrations.