Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (New Press Essential, 2)

Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of disciplines and remains, twenty years after his death, critically important. This newly available edition is drawn from the complete collection of all of Foucault’s courses, articles, and interviews, and brings his most important work to a new generation of readers. __Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology__ (edited by James D. Faubion) surveys Foucault’s diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth. "Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. In 1994, ten years after his death, his French publisher, Gallimard, issued Dits et ecrits, the first complete collection of all Foucault's publications outside his monographs." "It is a great pleasure for The New Press to bring the most important work from Dits et ecrits - including much never before published in the United States - to English-speaking readers in a definitive three-volume series edited by Paul Rabinow." "This first volume contains the famous course summaries Foucault submitted to the College de France each year from 1970 and 1982. Never before available in English, these writings provide a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault's work in progress during this time, including his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry, "biopolitics," and the modern subject." "A second section contains interviews, along with Foucault's key writings on ethics, including some of the riskiest and most personal writing of Foucault's career. These pieces illustrate the attempt to elaborate new ways of life and modes of "care of the self" that concerned him during the last years of his life."--BOOK JACKET Cover Title Page Copyright CONTENTS Series Preface by Paul Rabinow Acknowledgments Introduction by James D. Faubion Note on Terms and Translations Part One: Aesthetics The Father's "No" Speaking and Seeing in Raymond Roussel Introduction to Rousseau's Dialogues So Cruel a Knowledge A Preface to Transgression Language to Infinity Afterword to The Temptation of St. Anthony The Prose of Actaeon Behind the Fable The Thought of the Outside A Swimmer between Two Words Different Spaces This Is Not a Pipe What Is an Author? Sade: Sergeant of Sex The Gray Mornings of Tolerance The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the Everyday Worms The Imagination of the Nineteenth Century Pierre Boulez, Passing through the Screen Part Two: Methodology and Epistemology Philosophy and Psychology The Order of Things Nietzsche, Freud, Marx On the Ways of Writing History On the Archaeology of the Sciences: Response to the Epistemology Circle Madness and Society Theatrum Philosophicum Nietzsche, Genealogy, History My Body, This Paper, This Fire Return to History Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Foucault: Maurice Florence Life: Experience and Science Index The Second In A Three-volume Definitive Collection Of Articles, Interviews, And Seminars From One Of The Century's Most Influential Thinkers, Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Selections Include Commentaries On The Work Of De Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Roussel, And Boulez. They Also Include Unique Insight Into The Development Of Foucault's Original Philosophical Program. Presents a collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche.