Foucault and His Interlocutors

Beginning with the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this text includes essays by some of the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues, and collaborators take up his major claims, from h [...]
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Beginning with the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this text includes essays by some of the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues, and collaborators take up his major claims, from his first to final works, and provide us with the authoritative context in which to understand Foucault's writings. This volume also includes several important works by Foucault previously unpublished in English. The other contributors are Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres, and Paul Veyne.