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The final volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews, and seminars. Power, the final volume of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, draws together philosopher Michel Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture--medicine, psychiatry, prisons, sexuality--illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality. Power includes important later writings, and it highlights Foucault's revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom. It also documents Foucault's wide-ranging involvements, through lectures, articles, and interviews published throughout the world, many unavailable in English until now.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #830343 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-17
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 528 pages

From Booklist
The third volume of Foucault's miscellaneous writings--previous volumes covered Ethics (1997) and Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology (1998)--gathers lectures and prefaces, group discussions and interviews. Foucault made no claim to be a political theorist, yet the nature of power and the ways it is exercised were a central concern of much of his work. The volume's thirty pieces include historical discussions (The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century, About the Concept of the Dangerous Individual in Nineteenth-Century Legal Psychiatry) and theoretical analyses (Truth and Juridical Forms, Governmentality, The Subject and Power), as well as interviews and examples of Foucault's own political activism (Letter to Certain Leaders of the Left). Mary Carroll
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Geoffrey Galt Harpham, The Boston Book Review
What shines through in these pieces... is [Foucault's] remarkable liveliness of response, the extravagance of his curiosity, the originality and assurance of his formulations. Foucault today remains a sharply etched individual, an unmistakable voice. To read this... is to remember -- as with the Kennedy assassination or the Challenger explosion -- where you were when you heard it for the first time.

Richard Shusterman, The Nation
Exhibits Foucault's development of thought and rich range of textual exercises.