Writing for The Atlantic in 2017, Kurt Andersen claimed that “Foucault’s suspicion of reason became deeply and widely embedded in American academia,” leaving us defenseless against ...

The shape of Foucault’s intellectual trajectory was already controversial during his lifetime. Readers asked, for example, whether his late turn to the ethics of self-care was a betrayal of his ...

Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984. Michel Foucault, Author, Lawrence D. Kritzman, Editor, Alan Sheridan, Translator Routledge $51 (360p) ISBN 978-0-415-90149-9 ...

His writing never alienates, never turns anyone away with bald assertions or a single frame of reference. He invited everyone to look at what fascinated him, draw their own conclusions, and respond.

His writing never alienates, never turns anyone away with bald assertions or a single frame of reference. He invited everyone to look at what fascinated him, draw their own conclusions, and respond.

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the French publication of Michel Foucault’s dark masterpiece, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. A book of vast historical scope, written with ...