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History
The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille Drunken and debauched husbands; libertine wives; vagabonding children. These and many more are the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate the question: is there an... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"An invaluable book" of late-career lectures that reveal Foucault's perspective on truth, truth-telling, and the nature of discourse (Choice). This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Three years before his death, Michel Foucault delivered a series of lectures at the Catholic University of Louvain that until recently remained almost unknown. These lectures -- which focus on the role of avowal, or... See More
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the... See More
In the work that established him as the most important French thinker since Sartre, Michel Foucault offers startling evidence that "man" -- man as a subject of scientific knowledge -- is at best a recent invention, the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature. In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes are astonishingly stable... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault's acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the public One of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were... See More
Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge -- are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault's lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality -- from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality -- the first volume of which was published in 1976 -- exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A... See More
Literature & FictionNewly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"What characterizes the act of justice is not resort to a court and to judges; it is not the intervention of magistrates (even if they had to be simple mediators or arbitrators). What characterizes the juridical act, the... See More
In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the... See More
Literature & Fiction
In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the... See More
Politics & Social SciencesNewly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self. On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined his entire philosophical... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he... See More
Foreign Languages
Les aveux de la chair, qui paraît aujourd'hui comme le quatrième et dernier volume de L'histoire de la sexualité, est en réalité le premier auquel Michel Foucault s'était consacré après La volonté de savoir (1976)... See More
Foreign Languages
Les idées reçues ont le cuir dur : la lettre de cachet, sous l'Ancien Régime, passe aujourd'hui encore pour l'exemple même du bon plaisir royal servant à enfermer nobles infidèles ou grands vassaux désobligeants... See More
Foreign Languages
Peut-être avons-nous honte aujourd'hui de nos prisons. Le XIXe siècle, lui, était fier des forteresses qu'il construisait aux limites et parfois au c?ur des villes. Ces murs, ces verrous, ces cellules figuraient toute une... See More