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Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. His books include The Government of Self and Others, The Courage of Truth, The Birth of Biopolitics, and The Punitive Society.
Praise for Foucault's Lectures at the College de France Series: Foucault must be reckoned with. --New York Times Book Review [Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture. --New York Review of Books These lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault's later work--the relationship between power and knowledge. --Library Journal Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are... --The Nation Ideas spark off nearly every page...The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s] but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday. --Bookforum
