"The Will to Know" reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, "Discipline and Punish," to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores the different forms of truth-telling, and their relation[...]

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Two hundred and fifty years ago, a man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France was drawn and quartered in a grisly spectacle that suggested an unmediated duel between the violence of the criminal and the violence of the state. This groundbreaking book by Michel Foucault, the most i[...]

This volume draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality - illuminating and exp[...]

Introduction to Kant's Anthropology From a Pragmatic Point of View Michel Foucaulttranslated and with an introduction by Arianna BoveThis introduction and commentary to Kant's least discussed work, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, is the dissertation that Michel Foucault presented in 196[...]

Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, soc[...]

The reception of Michel Foucault's work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one hand there are those who admire the detail of his concrete analyses, but wonder how the political and ethical commitments they seem to rely on can be justified. On the other, there are [...]

Throughout most of his career, Michel Foucault consistently refused to say much about himself and was reluctant to be defined in either professional or personal terms. His stance was Do not ask who I am, and do not ask me to remain the same'. In the last years of his life, he changed his stance, gav[...]

Vingt ans apres leur fin abrupte, et malgre le caractere encore partiel de la reception de son travail (la moitie des lecons au College de France demeu-rent non publiees), les analyses du pouvoir elaborees par Michel Foucault (1926-1984) ont une influence durable sur un nombre impressionnant de sphe[...]