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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18306661-power-knowledge) here . Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization ; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic ; prisons in Discipline and Punish ; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality . But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them. Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent - and terrifying - portrait of society that he was patiently compiling. For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the na

Author

Michael Foucault,Colin Gordon,Leo Marshall,JOhn Mepham,Kate Soper

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780855275570

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Science

Rating

4.12 / 5 (2,087 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14