The Essential Foucault : Selections From Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984

New York: New Press, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. xxxv, 460 pages; 24 cm Lacks jacket. Neat, ample pencil lines to approx 30 early pages; a handful of others pages with much less penciling in middle of text. (All easily erased but may prove useful.) Binding is very tight ; exterior very clean. Overall about very good thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 9781565848283

"Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. His complete uncollected writings, under the title "Dits et ecrits," were published in French in 1994 and in a three volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these works--courses, articles, and interviews, many of them translated into English for the first time--to American readers. Now, Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from the three-volume set into a one-volume anthology. "The Essential Foucault," which features a new and provocative introduction by Rabinow and Rose, is certain to become the standard text for all those interested in a comprehensive overview of Foucault's thought." —Publisher. ¶  CONTENTS: Introduction: Foucault today / Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose Foucault / [Maurice Florence] Life: experience and science Polemics, politics, and problematizations: an interview with Michel Foucault The ethics of the concern of the self as a practice of freedom What is enlightenment? Preface to The history of sexuality, volume two Confronting governments: human rights The risks of security Structuralism and post-structuralism On the genealogy of ethics: an overview of work in progress The subject and power Technologies of the self So it is important to think? The masked philosopher "Omnes et singulatim": toward a critique of political reason The birth of biopolitics About the concept of the "dangerous individual" in nineteenth-century legal psychiatry Governmentality Questions of method Security, territory, and population What is critique? Lives of infamous men Society must be defended Truth and power The birth of social medicine The politics of health in the eighteenth century Nietzsche, genealogy, history Madness and society What is an author? On the archaeology of the sciences: response to the epistemology circle The thought of the outside A preface to transgression. ¶  Philosophie française 20e siècle Philosophy, French Philosophy, French 20th century