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Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition
Perry Zurn (Ed.)
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Description for Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition
Hardback. Formed in the wake of May 1968, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) was a radical resistance movement active in France in the early 1970's. Theorist Michel Foucault was heavily involved. This book collects interdisciplinary essays that explore the GIP's resources both for Foucault studies and for prison activism today. Editor(s): Dilts, Andrew; Zurn, Perry. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJPL; HPS; JKVP1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 525.
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the ... Read more
This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons (The Prisons Information Group, or GIP). The GIP was a radical activist group, extant between 1970 and 1973, in which Michel Foucault was heavily involved. It aimed to facilitate the circulation of information about living conditions in French prisons and, over time, it catalyzed several revolts and instigated minor reforms. In Foucault's words, the GIP sought to identify what was 'intolerable' about the prison system and then to produce 'an active intolerance' of that same intolerable reality. To do this, the GIP 'gave prisoners the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
297
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137510662
SKU
V9781137510662
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About Perry Zurn (Ed.)
Perry Zurn is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hampshire College, USA. Andrew Dilts is Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University, USA.
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