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

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The essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucaults letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosophers thought throughout his life

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, were published in French in 1994; this was followed by a three-volume series from The New Press that brought the most important of these workscourses, articles, and personal letters, many of them translated into English for the first timeto American readers. Here, the renowned Foucault scholars Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose have collected the best pieces from the three-volume set into a one-volume anthology in which Foucaults dazzling intellect and gift for language are on full display.

The Essential Foucault, which features a provocative introduction by Rabinow and Rose, is certain to become the standard text for all those interested in a comprehensive overview of Foucaults thought.

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"A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time Foucault's work leaves no reader untouched or unchanged."
Edward Said, The New York Times Book Review

"What shines through in these pieces is [Foucault's] remarkable liveliness of response, the extravagance of his curiosity, the originality and assurance of his formulations."
Geoffrey Galt Harpham, The Boston Book Review