Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher and held a chair at the Collège de France, a chair to which he gave the title "The History of Systems of Thought". His writings have had an enormous impact on other scholarly work: Foucault's influence extends across the humanities and social sciences, and across many applied and professional areas of study.

Bibliography

Monographs

• Maladie mentale et personnalité (1954); reed. Maladie mentale et psychologie (1995) (Mental Illness and Psychology)
• Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique - Folie et déraison (1961) (Madness and Civilization - although this is a revised version)
• Naissance de la clinique - une archéologie du regard médical (1963) (The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception)
• Raymond Roussel (1963) (Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel)
• Les mots et les choses - une archéologie des sciences humaines (1966) (The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences)
• La pensée du dehors (1966) ('Thought of the Outside'; not published as a monograph in English)
• L'archéologie du savoir (1969) (Archaeology of Knowledge)
• L'ordre du discours (1971) ('The Order of Discourse'/'The Discourse on Language' ; not published as a monograph in English)
• Ceci n'est pas une pipe (1973) (This Is Not a Pipe)
• Surveiller et punir (1975) (Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison)
• Histoire de la sexualité (The History of Sexuality)
• Vol I: La Volonté de savoir (1976) (The Will to Knowledge)
• Vol II: L'Usage des plaisirs (1984) (The Use of Pleasure)
• Vol III: Le Souci de soi (1984) (The Care of the Self)

The Collège Courses

• 1976-1977 Il faut défendre la societé (1997) (Society Must Be Defended)
• 1974-1975 Les anormaux (1999) (Abnormal)
• 1981-1982 L'herméneutique du sujet (2001) (The Hermeneutics of the Subject)
• 1973-1974 Le pouvoir psychiatrique (2003) (not yet available in English)
• 1977-1978 Securité, territoire, population (2004) (not yet available in English)
• 1978-1979 Naissance de la biopolitique (2004) (not yet available in English)

Other books

• Remarks on Marx (1991 - series of Italian interviews never published in French)
• Fearless Speech (2001 - Berkeley lecture series, also never published in French)

Anthologies

In French, almost all of Foucault shorter writings, published interviews and miscellany have been published in a collection called Dits et écrits, originally published in four volumes in 1994, latterly in only two volumes.

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In English, there are a number of overlapping anthologies, which often use conflicting translations of the overlapping pieces, which frequently do not bear the same names as one another. To this end, it is advisable to consult a full bibliography of Foucault's shorter works, such as Richard Lynch's here. The major collections in English are:

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• Language, counter-memory, practice, ed. Donald F. Bouchard (1977)
• Power/Knowledge, ed. Colin Gordon (1980)
• The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (1984)
• Politics, Philosophy, Culture, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman (1988)
• Foucault Live (2nd Ed.), ed. Sylvère Lotringer (1996)
• The Politics of Truth, ed. Sylvère Lotringer (1997)
• Ethics : subjectivity and truth (Essential Works Vol. 1), ed.Paul Rabinow (1997)
• Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Vol.2), ed. James D. Faubion (1998)
• Power (Essential Works Vol. 3), ed. James D. Faubion (2000)
• The Essential Foucault, eds. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (2003)