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Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault (1926–84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.

Titles by This Author

Introduction to Kant's Anthropology

By Michel Foucault
Edited by Roberto Nigro

This introduction and commentary to Kant's least discussed work, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, is the dissertation that Michel Foucault presented in 1961 as his doctoral thesis. It has remained unpublished, in any language, until now.

The Politics of Truth, New Edition

By Michel Foucault
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age. Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modernity.

Foucault Live

Collected Interviews, 1961–1984
By Michel Foucault
Edited by Sylvère Lotringer

Foucault / Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him
By Michel Foucault and Maurice Blanchot

In these essays two of the most important French thinkers of our time reflect on each other's work. In so doing, Maurice Blanchot the novelist/essayist and Michel Foucault the philosopher develop a new perspective on the relationship between subjectivity, fiction, and the will to truth. The two texts present meditations on writing, language, and representation which question the status of the author/subject and explore the notion of a "neutral" voice that arises from the realm of the "outside."