MICHEL FOUCAULT, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is Series Editor, and teaches Philosophy, Divinity, Comparative Literature, and History of Science at the University of Chicago, USA. He is Executive Director of the journal, Critical Inquiry and Co-editor of the anthology, Michel Foucault: Philosophie. GRAHAM BURCHELL is Translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault and is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.
Praise for Michel Foucault: [Foucault] must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists. - The New York Times Book Review Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture. - The Nation