The Essential Foucault by Michel Foucault

The Essential Foucault by Michel Foucault

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.

"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

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author and editor of numerous books, including Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary, also published by Duke University Press, and, most recently, Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases.

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ISBN 13	9781565848016
ISBN 10	1565848012
Title	The Essential Foucault
Author	Michel Foucault
Series	New Press Essential
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New Press
Year published	2003-09-18
Number of pages	460
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