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Ethics
Subjectivity and Truth, Vol. 1
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by Michel Foucault,
Edited by Paul Rabinow,
Translated by Robert Hurley
New Press
Due/Published
February 1997, 384 pages,
cloth
ISBN
1565843525
Michel Foucault is generally considered one of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his writing has remained unpublished and/or unavailable in English. It is only recently that the French publisher Gallimard issued Dis et écrits, the first complete collection of everything Foucault published outside of his monographs. Ethics, the first of three volumes in the collection, provides a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault's work. Included in the first section of this volume are 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. Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award. |
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Review
As the commentaries on Foucault continue to pile up, this new edition is truly essential for an understanding and appreciation of the philosopher's works. This is just the first installment of a three volume set, selected from Dits and Écrits, the monumental Gallimard edition of Foucault's complete works. The writings collected in this volume focus on Foucault's famous theories on penal institutions, psychiatry, "biopolitics," and the modern subject. Taken as a whole, this edition illuminates and reorients our reading of Foucault. One of the more interesting aspects that emerges as one reads through these writings, is Foucault's commentary on his own work and intellectual development. Included in this volume are his famous course summaries submitted to the Collége de France from 1970 to 1982 (never translated into English before), and his prefaces, writings for conferences, and interviews. To read about the second volume Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology
And for volume 3, Power
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