Books
Debate: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault–On Human Nature
– Chomsky, Noam, Fons Elders, and Michel Foucault. “Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault--On Human Nature.” Edited version of a debate broadcast on Danish television, November 28, 1971.Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home
– Foucault, Michel. “Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home.” Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1976-1984.A host site for audio lectures and discussions in English and French.
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
– Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). Translated by Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage, 1980.With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine… More
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977
– Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Translated by Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper; edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in… More
Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault
– Bess, Michael, and Michel Foucault. “Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault.” November 3, 1980. Translated by Michael Bess.I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
– Foucault, Michel. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century. Translated by Frank Jellinek. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.To free his father and himself from his mother’s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to… More
The Foucault Reader
– Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism… More
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
– Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on “technologies of the self.” He described it as “composed of different papers about the… More
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
– Foucault, Michel, and Mark Blasius. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth.” Political Theory 21, no. 2 (1993): 198–227.The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
– Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1)
– Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: New Press, 1998.Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault’s renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and… More
Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3)
– Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Translated Robert Hurley, edited James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1999.Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s “Essential Works of Foucault” series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped… More
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
– Bevir, Mark. “Foucault, Power, and Institutions.” Political Studies 47, no. 2 (1999): 345-59.Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
– Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picador, 2003.The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who “resemble their crime before they… More
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982
– Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their… More
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
– Foucault, Michel. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picador, 2008.In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal… More
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978
– Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of “biopower,” studying the foundations of this new technology of… More
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the… More
The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
– Foucault, Michel. The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the… More
Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault
– James, Robin. “Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault.” October 20, 2011.Foucault on Power and Punishment
– Alwan, Wes, Mark Linsenmayer, Katie McIntyre, and Seth Paskin. “Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment.” The Partially Examined Life. Published January 11, 2012.A Companion to Foucault
– Falzon, Christopher, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki. A Companion to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2013.For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines, and… More
History of Madness
– Gordon, Colin. “History of Madness.” In A Companion to Foucault, edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
– Hendricks, Christina. “Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.” Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 13, 2014.Mental Illness and Psychology
– Foucault, Michel. Mental Illness and Psychology. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (originally titled Maladie mentale et Personnalité; then, Maladie Mentale et Psychologie, 1954; English translation, 1958) was Foucault’s first… More
Madness and Civilization
– Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988.Foucault dated his own scholarly career from the publication of Madness and Civilization. Madness and Civilization (Folie et Déraison: histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 1961;… More
The Birth of the Clinic
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something… More
Discipline and Punish
– Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.Discipline and Punish, which begins with a famously gruesome description of the execution of the would-be assassin of King Louis XV, Damiens, summarizes one of Foucault’s most well-known… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.In the first volume of the History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir), published in 1976 (English translation, 1978), Foucault explores and… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Originally, Foucault announced The History of Sexuality as a six-volume study, with one volume to appear each year, but the poor reception of the first volume caused a crisis for Foucault,… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault’s widely acclaimed examination of “the experience of sexuality in Western society.” Foucault takes… More
Essays
Debate: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault–On Human Nature
– Chomsky, Noam, Fons Elders, and Michel Foucault. “Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault--On Human Nature.” Edited version of a debate broadcast on Danish television, November 28, 1971.Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home
– Foucault, Michel. “Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home.” Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1976-1984.A host site for audio lectures and discussions in English and French.
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
– Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). Translated by Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage, 1980.With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine… More
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977
– Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Translated by Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper; edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in… More
Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault
– Bess, Michael, and Michel Foucault. “Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault.” November 3, 1980. Translated by Michael Bess.I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
– Foucault, Michel. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century. Translated by Frank Jellinek. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.To free his father and himself from his mother’s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to… More
The Foucault Reader
– Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism… More
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
– Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on “technologies of the self.” He described it as “composed of different papers about the… More
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
– Foucault, Michel, and Mark Blasius. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth.” Political Theory 21, no. 2 (1993): 198–227.The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
– Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1)
– Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: New Press, 1998.Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault’s renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and… More
Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3)
– Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Translated Robert Hurley, edited James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1999.Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s “Essential Works of Foucault” series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped… More
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
– Bevir, Mark. “Foucault, Power, and Institutions.” Political Studies 47, no. 2 (1999): 345-59.Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
– Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picador, 2003.The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who “resemble their crime before they… More
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982
– Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their… More
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
– Foucault, Michel. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picador, 2008.In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal… More
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978
– Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of “biopower,” studying the foundations of this new technology of… More
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the… More
The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
– Foucault, Michel. The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the… More
Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault
– James, Robin. “Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault.” October 20, 2011.Foucault on Power and Punishment
– Alwan, Wes, Mark Linsenmayer, Katie McIntyre, and Seth Paskin. “Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment.” The Partially Examined Life. Published January 11, 2012.A Companion to Foucault
– Falzon, Christopher, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki. A Companion to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2013.For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines, and… More
History of Madness
– Gordon, Colin. “History of Madness.” In A Companion to Foucault, edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
– Hendricks, Christina. “Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.” Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 13, 2014.Mental Illness and Psychology
– Foucault, Michel. Mental Illness and Psychology. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (originally titled Maladie mentale et Personnalité; then, Maladie Mentale et Psychologie, 1954; English translation, 1958) was Foucault’s first… More
Madness and Civilization
– Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988.Foucault dated his own scholarly career from the publication of Madness and Civilization. Madness and Civilization (Folie et Déraison: histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 1961;… More
The Birth of the Clinic
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something… More
Discipline and Punish
– Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.Discipline and Punish, which begins with a famously gruesome description of the execution of the would-be assassin of King Louis XV, Damiens, summarizes one of Foucault’s most well-known… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.In the first volume of the History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir), published in 1976 (English translation, 1978), Foucault explores and… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Originally, Foucault announced The History of Sexuality as a six-volume study, with one volume to appear each year, but the poor reception of the first volume caused a crisis for Foucault,… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault’s widely acclaimed examination of “the experience of sexuality in Western society.” Foucault takes… More
Commentary
Debate: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault–On Human Nature
– Chomsky, Noam, Fons Elders, and Michel Foucault. “Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault--On Human Nature.” Edited version of a debate broadcast on Danish television, November 28, 1971.Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home
– Foucault, Michel. “Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home.” Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1976-1984.A host site for audio lectures and discussions in English and French.
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
– Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). Translated by Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage, 1980.With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine… More
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977
– Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Translated by Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper; edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in… More
Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault
– Bess, Michael, and Michel Foucault. “Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault.” November 3, 1980. Translated by Michael Bess.I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
– Foucault, Michel. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century. Translated by Frank Jellinek. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.To free his father and himself from his mother’s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to… More
The Foucault Reader
– Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism… More
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
– Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on “technologies of the self.” He described it as “composed of different papers about the… More
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
– Foucault, Michel, and Mark Blasius. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth.” Political Theory 21, no. 2 (1993): 198–227.The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
– Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1)
– Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: New Press, 1998.Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault’s renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and… More
Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3)
– Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Translated Robert Hurley, edited James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1999.Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s “Essential Works of Foucault” series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped… More
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
– Bevir, Mark. “Foucault, Power, and Institutions.” Political Studies 47, no. 2 (1999): 345-59.Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
– Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picador, 2003.The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who “resemble their crime before they… More
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982
– Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their… More
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
– Foucault, Michel. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picador, 2008.In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal… More
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978
– Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of “biopower,” studying the foundations of this new technology of… More
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the… More
The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
– Foucault, Michel. The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the… More
Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault
– James, Robin. “Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault.” October 20, 2011.Foucault on Power and Punishment
– Alwan, Wes, Mark Linsenmayer, Katie McIntyre, and Seth Paskin. “Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment.” The Partially Examined Life. Published January 11, 2012.A Companion to Foucault
– Falzon, Christopher, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki. A Companion to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2013.For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines, and… More
History of Madness
– Gordon, Colin. “History of Madness.” In A Companion to Foucault, edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
– Hendricks, Christina. “Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.” Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 13, 2014.Mental Illness and Psychology
– Foucault, Michel. Mental Illness and Psychology. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (originally titled Maladie mentale et Personnalité; then, Maladie Mentale et Psychologie, 1954; English translation, 1958) was Foucault’s first… More
Madness and Civilization
– Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988.Foucault dated his own scholarly career from the publication of Madness and Civilization. Madness and Civilization (Folie et Déraison: histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 1961;… More
The Birth of the Clinic
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something… More
Discipline and Punish
– Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.Discipline and Punish, which begins with a famously gruesome description of the execution of the would-be assassin of King Louis XV, Damiens, summarizes one of Foucault’s most well-known… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.In the first volume of the History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir), published in 1976 (English translation, 1978), Foucault explores and… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Originally, Foucault announced The History of Sexuality as a six-volume study, with one volume to appear each year, but the poor reception of the first volume caused a crisis for Foucault,… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault’s widely acclaimed examination of “the experience of sexuality in Western society.” Foucault takes… More
Multimedia
Debate: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault–On Human Nature
– Chomsky, Noam, Fons Elders, and Michel Foucault. “Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault--On Human Nature.” Edited version of a debate broadcast on Danish television, November 28, 1971.Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home
– Foucault, Michel. “Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home.” Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1976-1984.A host site for audio lectures and discussions in English and French.
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
– Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). Translated by Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage, 1980.With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine… More
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977
– Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Translated by Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper; edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in… More
Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault
– Bess, Michael, and Michel Foucault. “Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault.” November 3, 1980. Translated by Michael Bess.I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
– Foucault, Michel. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century. Translated by Frank Jellinek. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.To free his father and himself from his mother’s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to… More
The Foucault Reader
– Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism… More
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
– Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on “technologies of the self.” He described it as “composed of different papers about the… More
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
– Foucault, Michel, and Mark Blasius. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth.” Political Theory 21, no. 2 (1993): 198–227.The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
– Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1)
– Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: New Press, 1998.Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault’s renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and… More
Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3)
– Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Translated Robert Hurley, edited James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1999.Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s “Essential Works of Foucault” series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped… More
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
– Bevir, Mark. “Foucault, Power, and Institutions.” Political Studies 47, no. 2 (1999): 345-59.Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
– Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picador, 2003.The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who “resemble their crime before they… More
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982
– Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their… More
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
– Foucault, Michel. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picador, 2008.In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal… More
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978
– Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of “biopower,” studying the foundations of this new technology of… More
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the… More
The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
– Foucault, Michel. The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the… More
Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault
– James, Robin. “Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault.” October 20, 2011.Foucault on Power and Punishment
– Alwan, Wes, Mark Linsenmayer, Katie McIntyre, and Seth Paskin. “Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment.” The Partially Examined Life. Published January 11, 2012.A Companion to Foucault
– Falzon, Christopher, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki. A Companion to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2013.For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines, and… More
History of Madness
– Gordon, Colin. “History of Madness.” In A Companion to Foucault, edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
– Hendricks, Christina. “Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.” Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 13, 2014.Mental Illness and Psychology
– Foucault, Michel. Mental Illness and Psychology. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (originally titled Maladie mentale et Personnalité; then, Maladie Mentale et Psychologie, 1954; English translation, 1958) was Foucault’s first… More
Madness and Civilization
– Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988.Foucault dated his own scholarly career from the publication of Madness and Civilization. Madness and Civilization (Folie et Déraison: histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 1961;… More
The Birth of the Clinic
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something… More
Discipline and Punish
– Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.Discipline and Punish, which begins with a famously gruesome description of the execution of the would-be assassin of King Louis XV, Damiens, summarizes one of Foucault’s most well-known… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.In the first volume of the History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir), published in 1976 (English translation, 1978), Foucault explores and… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Originally, Foucault announced The History of Sexuality as a six-volume study, with one volume to appear each year, but the poor reception of the first volume caused a crisis for Foucault,… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault’s widely acclaimed examination of “the experience of sexuality in Western society.” Foucault takes… More
Teaching
Debate: Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault–On Human Nature
– Chomsky, Noam, Fons Elders, and Michel Foucault. “Debate: Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault--On Human Nature.” Edited version of a debate broadcast on Danish television, November 28, 1971.Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home
– Foucault, Michel. “Michel Foucault Audio Archive Home.” Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1976-1984.A host site for audio lectures and discussions in English and French.
Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)
– Foucault, Michel. Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite). Translated by Richard McDougall. New York: Vintage, 1980.With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine… More
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977
– Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–1977. Translated by Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John Mepham, and Kate Soper; edited by Colin Gordon. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in… More
Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault
– Bess, Michael, and Michel Foucault. “Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual: Interview with Michel Foucault.” November 3, 1980. Translated by Michael Bess.I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
– Foucault, Michel. I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century. Translated by Frank Jellinek. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.To free his father and himself from his mother’s tyranny, Pierre Rivière decided to kill her. On June 3,1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to… More
The Foucault Reader
– Foucault, Michel. The Foucault Reader. Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism… More
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
– Foucault, Michel. Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault. Edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on “technologies of the self.” He described it as “composed of different papers about the… More
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
– Foucault, Michel, and Mark Blasius. “About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth.” Political Theory 21, no. 2 (1993): 198–227.The Cambridge Companion to Foucault
– Gutting, Gary, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Foucault. 2nd edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1)
– Foucault, Michel. Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New York: New Press, 1998.Ethics (edited by Paul Rabinow) contains the summaries of Foucault’s renowned courses at the Collège de France, paired with key writings and interviews on friendship, sexuality, and… More
Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3)
– Foucault, Michel. Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Translated Robert Hurley, edited James D. Faubion. New York: New Press, 1999.Power, the third and final volume of The New Press’s “Essential Works of Foucault” series, draws together Foucault’s contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped… More
Foucault, Power, and Institutions
– Bevir, Mark. “Foucault, Power, and Institutions.” Political Studies 47, no. 2 (1999): 345-59.Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975
– Foucault, Michel. Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Valerio Marchetti and Antonella Salomoni. New York: Picador, 2003.The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining the role of psychiatry in modern criminal justice, and its method of categorizing individuals who “resemble their crime before they… More
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982
– Foucault, Michel. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their… More
Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974
– Foucault, Michel. Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Jacques Lagrange. New York: Picador, 2008.In Psychiatric Power, the fourth volume in the collection of his groundbreaking lectures at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault addresses and expands upon the ideas in his seminal… More
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978
– Foucault, Michel. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Marking a major development in Foucault’s thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of “biopower,” studying the foundations of this new technology of… More
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Michel Senellart. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.The Birth of Biopolitics continues to pursue the themes of Foucault’s lectures from Security, Territory, Population. Having shown how eighteenth-century political economy marks the… More
The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984
– Foucault, Michel. The Courage of Truth (the Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. Translated by Graham Burchell, edited by Frédéric Gros. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in exploring the… More
Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault
– James, Robin. “Juridical, Disciplinary, and Biopolitical Power: Basic Background on Foucault.” October 20, 2011.Foucault on Power and Punishment
– Alwan, Wes, Mark Linsenmayer, Katie McIntyre, and Seth Paskin. “Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment.” The Partially Examined Life. Published January 11, 2012.A Companion to Foucault
– Falzon, Christopher, Timothy O’Leary and Jana Sawicki. A Companion to Foucault. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2013.For close to half a century, the innovative thought of French philosopher and social critic Michel Foucault has exercised an enormous influence across a wide range of disciplines, and… More
History of Madness
– Gordon, Colin. “History of Madness.” In A Companion to Foucault, edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
– Hendricks, Christina. “Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction.” Lecture, University of British Columbia, February 13, 2014.Mental Illness and Psychology
– Foucault, Michel. Mental Illness and Psychology. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.Foucault’s Mental Illness and Psychology (originally titled Maladie mentale et Personnalité; then, Maladie Mentale et Psychologie, 1954; English translation, 1958) was Foucault’s first… More
Madness and Civilization
– Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988.Foucault dated his own scholarly career from the publication of Madness and Civilization. Madness and Civilization (Folie et Déraison: histoire de la folie à l’âge classique, 1961;… More
The Birth of the Clinic
– Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something… More
Discipline and Punish
– Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.Discipline and Punish, which begins with a famously gruesome description of the execution of the would-be assassin of King Louis XV, Damiens, summarizes one of Foucault’s most well-known… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.In the first volume of the History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Histoire de la sexualité: La volonté de savoir), published in 1976 (English translation, 1978), Foucault explores and… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.Originally, Foucault announced The History of Sexuality as a six-volume study, with one volume to appear each year, but the poor reception of the first volume caused a crisis for Foucault,… More
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
– Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self. Translated by Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault’s widely acclaimed examination of “the experience of sexuality in Western society.” Foucault takes… More