Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela hasemerged as the world's most significant moral leader since Gandhi.As president of the African National Congress and spiritualfigurehead of the anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental inmoving South Africa towards black-majority rule. He is reveredthroughout the world as a vital force for human rights and racialequality. Mandela's riveting memoirs, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM , werefirst published in 1994 to universal acclaim. This excitingillustrated edition now portrays his life in words and pictures.Vivid de*ions of his childhood environment, earlyJohannesburg, life in the townships, Robben Island and the events,protests, historic trials and acts of vengeance that forged hisdestiny are now accompanied by haunting and dramatic photographsthat illuminate his story in an unforgettable way.
A dramatically new interpretation of the development of thethought of Michel Foucault, one of the 20th century's mostinfluential thinkers. In this lucid and groundbreaking work, EricParas reveals that our understanding of the philosophy of MichelFoucault must be radically revised. Foucault's critical axes ofpower and knowledge -which purposefully eradicated the concept offree will- reappear as targets in his later work. Parasdemonstrates the logic that led Foucault to move from amicrophysics of power to an aesthetics of individual experience. Heis the first to show a transformation that not only placed Foucaultin opposition to the archaeological and genealogical positions forwhich he is renowned, but aligned him with some of his fiercestantagonists. "Foucault 2.0" draws on the full range of thephilosopher's writing and of the work of contemporaries whoinfluenced, and sometimes vehemently opposed, his ideas. To fillthe gaps in Foucault's published writings that have so far limitedour conception of the arc of
