FOUCAULT (Michel).
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Volume One: Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth. Volume Two: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology.
FOUCAULT (Michel).
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Volume One: Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth. Volume Two: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology.
An astonishingly wide-ranging collection, posthumously gathering together the most important of Foucault’s essays, introductions and interviews, many of which hitherto untranslated into English. Ethics begins with Foucault’s own course summaries of his famously popular lecture series at the Collège de France, followed by a scattering of short essays on politics, sexuality, and friendship. Aesthetics compiles many of Foucault’s most important essays on art and culture, including the much-reproduced ‘What Is an Author?’. Closing this collection are Foucault’s reflections on his own relationship with thinkers like Marx, Freud and his sometime-friend Gilles Deleuze, alongside ‘My Body, This Paper, This Fire’, his somewhat prickly riposte to Derrida’s ‘Cogito and the History of Madness’.
A third volume titled ‘Power’ was published in 2000.
