The Essential Foucault

Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

By: Michel Foucault, Paul Rabinow, Nikolas S. Rose

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The essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucault’s letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosopher’s thought throughout his life

“A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Foucault’s work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged.” —Edward Said, The New York Times Book Review

Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et écrits, were published in French in 1994; this was followed by a three-volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these works—courses, articles, and personal letters, many of them translated into English for the first time—to American readers. Here, the renowned Foucault scholars Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from the three-volume set into a one-volume anthology in which Foucault’s dazzling intellect and gift for language are on full display.

The Essential Foucault, which features a provocative introduction by Rabinow and Rose, is certain to become the standard text for all those interested in a comprehensive overview of Foucault’s thought.

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"A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time ... Foucault's work ... leaves no reader untouched or unchanged."
-Edward Said, The New York Times Book Review

"What shines through in these pieces is [Foucault's] remarkable liveliness of response, the extravagance of his curiosity, the originality and assurance of his formulations."
-Geoffrey Galt Harpham, The Boston Book Review

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Western Philosophy Deconstructionism Politics & Government Social & Political Philosophy Society & Culture Cultural Studies History of Ideas

Introduction
Foucault	p. 1
Life: Experience and Science	p. 6
Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations: An Interview with Michel Foucault	p. 18
The Ethics of the Concern of the Self as a Practice of Freedom	p. 25
What Is Enlightenment?	p. 43
Preface to The History of Sexuality, Volume Two	p. 58
Confronting Governments: Human Rights	p. 64
The Risks of Security	p. 66
Structuralism and Post-Structuralism	p. 80
On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress	p. 102
The Subject and Power	p. 126
Technologies of the Self	p. 145
So Is It Important to Think?	p. 170
The Masked Philosopher	p. 174
"Omnes et Singulatim": Toward a Critique of Political Reason	p. 180
The Birth of Biopolitics	p. 202
About the Concept of the "Dangerous Individual" in Nineteenth-Century Legal Psychiatry	p. 208
Governmentality	p. 229
Questions of Method	p. 246
Security, Territory, and Population	p. 259
What Is Critique?	p. 263
Lives of Infamous Men	p. 279
Society Must Be Defended	p. 294
Truth and Power	p. 300
The Birth of Social Medicine	p. 319
The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century	p. 338
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History	p. 351
Madness and Society	p. 370
What Is an Author?	p. 377
On the Archaeology of the Sciences: Response to the Epistemology Circle	p. 392
The Thought of the Outside	p. 423
A Preface to Transgression	p. 442
Permissions	p. 459
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