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'''Michel Foucault''' (born Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault ultimately rejected these labels, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity.
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'''Michel Foucault''' (born Paul-Michel Foucault, 1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault ultimately rejected these labels, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity.
  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
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*** Vol 3, [[Media:Foucault_Michel_The_History_of_Sexuality_3_The_Care_of_the_Self.pdf|''History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self'']], 1986.
 
*** Vol 3, [[Media:Foucault_Michel_The_History_of_Sexuality_3_The_Care_of_the_Self.pdf|''History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self'']], 1986.
 
** ''Istoria sexualităţii'', 3 vols, trans. Beatrice Stanciu and Alexandru Onete, Timisoara: Editura de Vest, 1995; Bucharest: Univers, 2005 (in Romanian).
 
** ''Istoria sexualităţii'', 3 vols, trans. Beatrice Stanciu and Alexandru Onete, Timisoara: Editura de Vest, 1995; Bucharest: Univers, 2005 (in Romanian).
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* with Arlette Farge, ''Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet des Archives de la Bastille au XVIIIe siècle'', Paris: Gallimard, 1982, 364 pp. [http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Archives/Le-Desordre-des-familles]
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** ''The Disorder of Families'', trans. Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota Press, 2015 (forthcoming). (in English)
  
 
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* ''I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century'', 1973–.
 
* ''I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century'', 1973–.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10387 Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a French Hermaphrodite]'', 1978–.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10387 Adélaïde Herculine Barbin: Mes souvenirs], Paris: Gallimard, 1978; 2002.
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* ''Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet with Arlette Farge'', Gallimard, 1982-.
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** ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10387 Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite]'', trans. Richard McDougall, Pantheon Books, 1980; Vintage Books, 2010, 199 pp.
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** ''[[Media:Herculine_Barbin_Llamada_Alexina_B.pdf|Herculine Barbin, Llamada Alexina B.]]'', ed. Antonio Serrano, 1985; 2nd ed., 2007. (in Spanish)
  
 
=== Lectures===
 
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* Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6152 Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics]'', 1982–.  
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* Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6152 Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics]'', University of Chicago Press, 1982; 2nd ed., 1983, 256 pp.
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** ''[[Media:Dreyfus_Hubert_L_Rabinow_Paul_Michel_Foucault_Zwischen_Strukturalismus_und_Hermeneutik.pdf|Michel Foucault: Zwischen Strukturalismus und Hermeneutik]]'', trans. Claus Rath and Ulrich Raulff, Frankfurt am Main: Athenäum, 1987; Weinheim: Beltz Athenäum, 1994, 327 pp. (in German)
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** ''[[Media:Rabinow_Paul_Dreyfus_Hubert_Foucault_Uma_trajetoria_filosofica.pdf|Foucault. Uma trajetória filosófica. Para além do estruturalismo e da hermenêutica]]'', trans. Vera Porto Carrero, 1995. (in Portuguese)
 
* Gilles Deleuze, ''Foucault'', Minuit, 1986.  
 
* Gilles Deleuze, ''Foucault'', Minuit, 1986.  
 
** [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Foucault_ES.pdf|''Foucault'']], trans. José Vázquez Pérez, Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 1987. (in Spanish).
 
** [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Foucault_ES.pdf|''Foucault'']], trans. José Vázquez Pérez, Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 1987. (in Spanish).
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* [http://www.michel-foucault.com/bibmf/mfbiblio.pdf Foucault's shorter works in English]. Compiled by Richard A. Lynch.
 
* [http://www.michel-foucault.com/bibmf/mfbiblio.pdf Foucault's shorter works in English]. Compiled by Richard A. Lynch.
 
* [http://aejcpp.free.fr/articles/biblio_foucault.htm At AEJCPP]. (in French)
 
* [http://aejcpp.free.fr/articles/biblio_foucault.htm At AEJCPP]. (in French)
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* [http://www.foucault.ileel.ufu.br/foucault/bibliografia In Portuguese].
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault_bibliography At Wikipedia]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault_bibliography At Wikipedia]
  

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Demonstration in support of immigrant workers. Michel Foucault in the foreground. Paris, 1973. Photo: Gilles Peress.
Born October 15, 1926(1926-10-15)
Poitiers, France
Died June 25, 1984(1984-06-25) (aged 57)
Paris, France

Michel Foucault (born Paul-Michel Foucault, 1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. His theories addressed the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a post-structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault ultimately rejected these labels, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity.

Bibliography

(in French unless noted)

Monographs

Editor

Lectures

  • "Des Espace Autres", [1967], Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité 5 (October 1984), pp 46-49. (in French). Written in 1967. The text was the basis of a lecture given in March 1967.
  • Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?: séance du samedi 22 février 1969, Paris: Armand Colin, 1970.
  • L'ordre du discours, Paris: Gallimard, 1971. Inaugural lecture at Collège de France on 2 December 1970.
  • Leçons sur la volonte de savoir. Cours au Collège de France. 1970-1971, eds. François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana, Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 2011. Weekly lectures, 9 December 1970 – 17 March 1971.
  • La Volonté de Savoir, [1970-71], 2011.
    • The Will to Know, 2013. (in English)
  • "Le noir et la surface" & "La peinture de Manet", [1971], Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011.
  • Théories et Institutions Pénales, [1971-72], (forthcoming).
    • Penal Theories and Institutions, (forthcoming). (in English)
  • La Société Punitive, [1972-73], 2013.
    • The Punitive Society, (forthcoming). (in English)
  • Le pouvoir psychiatrique, [1973-74], 2003.
    • Psychiatric Power, 2006. (in English)
  • Les anormaux, [1974-75], 1999.
  • Il faut défendre la société, [1975-76], Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 1997; 2001; 2012. [3] [4]
  • Sécurité, territoire, population, [1977-78], 2004.
    • Security, Territory and Population, trans. Graham Burchell, 2007. (in English) [5]
  • Naissance de la biopolitique, [1978-79], 2004.
  • The Politics of Truth, [1978-84], ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth & Catherine Porter, Semiotext(e), 2007. (in English)
  • Du gouvernement des vivants, [1979-80], 2012.
    • On the Government of the Living, 2014. (in English)
  • Subjectivité et Vérité, [1980-81], (forthcoming).
    • Subjectivity and Truth, (forthcoming). (in English)
  • L'Herméneutique du sujet, [1981-82], 2001.
    • The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 2005. (in English) [7]
  • Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault, [1982], eds. Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman and Patrick H. Hutton, University of Massachusetts Press, 1988, 166 pp. (in English). Given at the University of Vermont in autumn 1982.
  • Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres, [1982-83], 2008.
  • Le courage de la vérité, [1983-84], 2009.
    • The Courage of Truth (Government of Self and Others 2), 2011. (in English) [8].
  • Fearless Speech, [1983], ed. Joseph Pearson, Semiotext(e), 2001, 183 pp. (in English). Six lectures delivered, in English, while teaching at Berkeley in the Fall of 1983.

Collected writings

  • Language, Counter-memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews, ed. Donald F. Bouchard, 1977; Cornell, 1980. (in English)
  • The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. (in English)
  • Dits et écrits, 1954-1988, 4 Vols, eds. D. Defert and F. Ewald, Paris: Gallimard, 1994.
  • The Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, eds. Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose, New York: The New Press, 2003. (in English)

Selected Papers and Articles

Interviews and Debates

  • with Guy Hocquenghem and Jean Danet, "La Loi de la pudeur", Recherches 37 (April 1979). Presented on radio on France Culture on 4 April 1978.
    • "The Danger of Child Sexuality", trans. Daniel Moshenberg, Semiotext(e) Magazine (Summer 1980), New York. (in English)
    • "Sexuality Morality and the Law", trans. Alan Sheridan, in Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, New York: Routledge, 1988; 1990. (in English)
  • Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, ed. Colin Gordon, trans. Colin Gordon, Leo Marshal, John Mepham and Kate Sober, New York: Pantheon, 1980. (in English)
  • Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, ed. Lawrence D. Kritzman, trans. Alan Sheridan, et al., New York: Routledge, 1988; 1990. (in English)
  • Foucault Live: Interviews, 1966-84, ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth and John Johnston, New York: Semiotext(e), 1989; 2nd ed. as Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984, 1996. (in English)
  • with Noam Chomsky, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, New York: New Press, 2006. (in English)
  • with Jean Le Bitoux, "The Gay Science", trans. Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, Critical Inquiry 37:3 (Spring 2011), pp 385-403. (in English)

On Foucault

Biographies
  • Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault, 1926-1984, Paris: Flammarion, 1989.
    • Michel Foucault, trans. Betsy Wing, Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1991. (in English)
    • Michel Foucault, trans. Thomas Kauf, Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 1992, 2004 (in Spanish).
  • James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. (in English)
    • Die Leidenschaft des Michel Foucault, trans. Michael Büsges, Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1995. (in German)
    • La pasion de Michel Foucault, trans. Oscar Luis Molina S., Santiago de Chile: Andres Bello, 1995. (in Spanish)
  • Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault, 1926-1984, new ed., Paris: Champs-Flammarion, 2011. (in French)

Bibliographies

External links

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