Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault can be counted as one of the greatest thinkers of twentieth century, his intellectual influence crossing over well into the twenty-first. His books, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The Archeology of Knowledge, The Birth of the Clinic, Madness and Civilisation or the four-volume History of Sexuality have enlightened us on the relations between power and knowledge, on society’s treatment of the insane, on the system of controls in the institution of hospital and on many such fascinating as well as deeply disturbing aspects of what we know as the modern world. In this book, Jean-Francois Bert has provided a fantastic introduction to Foucault’s thought. In150 pages, this is essential Foucault.

Translated from the French original by Sourish Datta

Originally published in French, by La Decouverte, Paris