Michel Foucault

Demonstration in support of immigrant workers. Michel Foucault in the foreground. Paris, 1973. Photo: Gilles Peress.

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.

Bibliography

Monographs

• Raymond Roussel, 1963–.
• Naissance de la clinique: une archéologie du regard médical, 1963-.
  • The Birth of the Clinic, 1976.
  • El nacimiento de la clínica: una arqueología de la mirada médica, trans. Francisca Perujo, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores Argentina, 1966, 2003 [1] (in Spanish).
• Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines [The Order of Things], 1966–.
• The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969–.
• L'ordre du discours [The Discourse on Language], 1971– [2].
  • El orden del discurso, trans. Alberto González Troyano, Buenos Aires: Tusquets Editores, 1992 (in Spanish).
  • Ordinea discursului. Un discurs despre discurs, trans. Ciprian Tudor, EUROSONG & BOOK, Bucureşti, 1998 (in Romanian).
• Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique [History of Madness], 1972–.
• This Is Not a Pipe, 1973–.
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 1975–.
• Histoire de la sexualité [The History of Sexuality].
  • La volonté de savoir, vol. I, 1976-.
    • Vol. 1: An Introduction
  • L'usage des plaisirs, vol. II, 1984-.
    • Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
  • Le souci de soi, 1984–.
    • Vol. 3: The Care of the Self
      • Istoria sexualităţii, trans. Beatrice Stanciu, Alexandru Onete, Timisoara: EDITURA DE VEST, 1995 (in Romanian), ISBN: 973-36-0224-8.
      • Istoria sexualităţii 3 vols, Bucuresti: Editura Univers , 2005 (in Romanian).

Editor

• I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century, 1973–.
• Herculine Barbin, Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a French Hermaphrodite, 1978–.
• Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet with Arlette Farge, Gallimard, 1982-.

Books by Foucault

• Maladie mentale et personnalité, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1954 [3] [4].
• Maladie mentale et psychologie, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1962, 1966.
• Les déviations religieuses et le savoir médical, Paris: Mouton, 1968.
• La grammaire logique: suivi de La science de Dieu. Précédé de 7 propos sur le 7e ange / Jean Pierre Brisset, Paris: Tchou, 1970.
• Le desir est partout / Fromanger / [La peinture photogenique], Paris: Galerie Jeanne Bucher, 1975.
• La pensée du dehors, illustrations by Pierre Tal Coat, [Fontfroide-le-Haut]: Fata Morgana, 1986.
• Résumé des cours: 1970-1982, [Paris]: Julliard, 1988.

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 by Michel Foucault in March 1967.
  • "Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias".
• Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?: séance du samedi 22 février 1969, Paris: Armand Colin, 1970.
• La Volonté de Savoir, [1970-71], 2011. (in French)
  • The Will to Know, 2013.
• "Le noir et la surface" & "La peinture de Manet", [1971], Cahiers de L’Herne, 2011. (in French)
  • Manet and the Object of Painting, trans. Matthew Barr, London: Tate, 2009.
  • La pintura de Manet, trans. Roser Vilagrassa, 2005. (in Spanish)
• Théories et Institutions Pénales, [1971-72], (forthcoming). (in French)
  • Penal Theories and Institutions, (forthcoming).
• La Société Punitive, [1972-73], 2013. (in French)
  • The Punitive Society, (forthcoming).
• Le pouvoir psychiatrique, [1973-74], 2003. (in French)
  • Psychiatric Power, 2006.
• Les anormaux, [1974-75], 1999. (in French)
  • Abnormal, [1974-75], 2003.
• Il faut défendre la société, [1975-76], Paris: Seuil/Gallimard, 1997; 2001; 2012. (in French) [5] [6]
  • Defender la sociedad, trans. François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana, Buenos Aires: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2000; 2nd. ed, 2001 (in Spanish).
  • Society Must Be Defended, trans. David Macey, Picador, 2003.
  • Je třeba bránit společnost, trans. Petr Horák, Prague: Filosofia, 2005 (in Czech).
  • Em defesa da sociedade, trans. Maria Ermantina Galvão, São Paulo: Martins Fortes, 1999; 4th ed., 2005 (in Portuguese).
• Sécurité, territoire, population, [1977-78], 2004. (in French)
  • Security, Territory and Population, trans. Graham Burchell, 2007. [7]
• Naissance de la biopolitique, [1978-79], 2004. (in French)
  • The Birth of Biopolitics, trans. Graham Burchell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 346 pp. [8]
  • Nascimento da Biopolítica, trans. Eduardo Brandão and Claudia Berliner, 2008. (in Portuguese)
  • Zrození biopolitiky, trans. Petr Horák, 2009. (in Czech)
• The Politics of Truth, [1978-84], ed. Sylvère Lotringer, trans. Lysa Hochroth & Catherine Porter, Semiotext(e), 2007.
• Du gouvernement des vivants, [1979-80], 2012. (in French)
  • On the Government of the Living, 2014.
• Subjectivité et Vérité, [1980-81], (forthcoming). (in French)
  • Subjectivity and Truth, (forthcoming).
• L'Herméneutique du sujet, [1981-82], 2001. (in French)
  • The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 2005. [9]
• 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. Given at the University of Vermont in autumn 1982.
• Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres, [1982-83], 2008. (in French)
  • The Government of Self and Others, 2010.
• Le courage de la vérité, [1983-84], 2009. (in French)
  • The Courage of Truth (Government of Self and Others 2), 2011. [10].
• Fearless Speech, [1983], ed. Joseph Pearson, Semiotext(e), 2001, 183 pp. Six lectures delivered, in English, while teaching at Berkeley in the Fall of 1983.

Collected writings

• Donald F. Bouchard (ed.), Language, counter-memory, practice, 1977.
• Colin Gordon (ed.), Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, trans. Colin Gordon, Leo Marshal, John Mepham and Kate Sober, New York: Pantheon, 1980.
• Paul Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
• Lawrence D. Kritzman (ed.), Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984, New York: Routledge, 1988, 1990.
• Dits et écrits, 4 volumes, 1994 (in French).
  • Ce este un autor?, Studii şi conferinţe, trans. Bogdan Ghiu and Ciprian Mihali, Cluj: Ideea Design & Print Editură, 2004.
• Sylvère Lotringer (ed.), Foucault Live, 2nd Edition, 1996.
• Paul Rabinow (ed.), Ethics: subjectivity and truth (Essential Works Vol. 1), 1997 [11].
• James D. Faubion (ed.), Aesthetics, Method, Epistemology (Essential Works Vol.2), New York: The New Press, 1998.
• James D. Faubion (ed.), Power (Essential Works Vol. 3), New York: New Press, 2000.
• Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose (eds), The Essential Foucault, 2003.

Selected articles

• "Introduction à l'Anthropologie de Kant", 1961, English version: "Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view", trans. Arianna Bove.
• "La Loi de la pudeur" on radio on France Culture on 4 April 1978; Recherches 37 (April 1979); trans. by Daniel Moshenberg in: "The Danger of Child Sexuality", Semiotext(e) Magazine (New York): Semiotext(e) Special Intervention Series 2: Loving Boys / Loving Children (Summer 1980).
• "Erotics", trans. Robert Hurley, October, vol. 33 (Summer, 1985):3-30, chap. 4 of The History of Sexuality, vol. 2, Paris: Gallimard, 1984.
• with Jay Miskowiec, "Of Other Spaces", in Diacritics, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1986): 22-27 [lecture of Michel Foucault in March 1967 "Des Espaces Autres", published by the French journal Architecture-Mouvement-Continuite in October, 1984].
• with Jean Le Bitoux, "The Gay Science", trans. Nicolae Morar and Daniel W. Smith, in Critical Inquiry, vol. 37, no. 3 (Spring 2011):385-403.
• with Noam Chomsky, The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature, New York: New Press, 2006.

On Foucault

• Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 1982–.
• Gilles Deleuze, Foucault, Editions de Minuit, 1986. (in French).
  • Foucault, trans. José Vázquez Pérez, Barcelona: Paidós Ibérica, 1987. (in Spanish).
  • Foucault, trans. & ed. Seán Hand, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988, 157 pp.
  • Fuko, trans. Svetlana Stojanović, Sremski Karlovci: Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, 1989, 139 pp. (in Serbo-Croatian) [12]
  • Foucault, trans. Bogdan Ghiu, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2002. (in Romanian).
• Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault tel que je l'imagine, vol. 10, no. 6, illustrations Jean Ipoustéguy, Editions Fata morgana, 1986 (in French).
• David Carroll, Paraesthetics: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, New York: Routledge, 1987.
• Gary Gutting, Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• François Ewald (ed.), Michel Foucault philosophe, Paris: Seuil, 1989 (in French).
  • Michel Foucault philosopher, trans. Timothy J. Armstrong, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992.
• Didier Eribon, Michel Foucault et ses contemporains, Paris: Fayard, 1994 (in French).
  • Michel Foucault y sus contemporáneos, trans. Viviana Ackerman, Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Visión, 1995 (in Spanish).
• Mark Poster, "Michel Foucault: Overview of Career", in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory, 1997.
• Jean Zoungrana, Michel Foucault. Un parcours croisé: Lévi-Strauss, Heidegger, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1998. (in French)
• Chambon, Adrienne S., Allan Irving, Laura Epstein (eds.), Reading Foucault for Social Work, New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
• Judith Revel (ed.), Le vocabulaire de Foucault, Ellipses Édition Marketing S.A., 2002 (in French).
• Sara Mills, Michel Foucault, Routledge, 2003.
• Roger-Pol. Droit, Michel Foucault: entretiens, Odile Jacob, 2004 (in French).
• Didier Eribon and Roger Chartier (ed.), Foucault aujourd'hui. Actes des neuvièmes rencontres INA-Sorbonne, 27 novembre 2004, L'Harmattan, 2006. (in French).
• Lisa Downing, The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Dianna Taylor (ed.), Michel Foucault: Key Concepts, 2011.
• Gary Gutting, "Michel Foucault", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013.
• Johan Hyrén, Självskapelseetik bortom Foucault: En rättviseteori för ett mångkulturellt, liberalt och demokratiskt samhälle/ An Ethics of Self-creation Beyond Foucault: A Theory of Justice for a Multicultural, Liberal and Democratic Society, PhD thesis, University of Göteborg, with English summary (pp. 372-390), 2013. (in Swedish)

Biographies

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

Bibliographies

• Compiled by Jean-Paul Brodeur. (in French)
• Compiled by Machiel Karskens
• Compiled by Richard A. Lynch
• At AEJCPP. (in French)
• At Wikipedia

External links

• Resources on Michel Foucault, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota.
• Portail Michel Foucault.
• Foucault on UbuWeb Sound
• Foucault, Info
• Michel Foucault Audio Archive
• Resources on Michel Foucault (in Spanish)
• A blog on Foucault by Jeremy Crampton