Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984
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- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : October 2026
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 392
- Category :
Culture and Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 298
- ISBN 13 : 9781041391050
- ISBN 10 : 1041391056
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Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault, many of which are hard to find. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness and the Iranian Revolution.
Taken together, the book provides a perfect companion to Foucault's best-known works, offering a fascinating insight into the mind and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial thinkers.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Lawrence D. Kritzman, in which he situates Foucault's thought in the context of Donald Trump's presidency. It also retains his helpful original introduction to the anthology.
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…fills an important niche in presenting a significant number of Foucault's writings that otherwise would remain unavailable to an English-language audience… this work demonstrates acute insights that illuminate the so-called ‘normal’ world.
American Journal of Art Therapy
These writings evince Foucault at his most lucid. Kritzman's introduction is most helpful.
Religious Studies Review
Table of Contents
Foreword Lawrence D. Kritzman
Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition Lawrence D. Kritzman
Self-Portraits
1. The Minimalist Self
2. Critical Theory/Intellectual History
3. An Aesthetics of Existence
Theories of the Political: History, Power, and the Law
4. Politics and Reason
5. The Art of Telling the Truth
6. On Power
7. Power and Sex
8. The Dangerous Individual
9. Practicing Criticism
The Politics of Contemporary Life
10. Social Security
11. Confinement, Psychiatry, Prison
12. Iran: The Spirit of a World Without Spirit
13. The Battle for Chastity
14. The Return of Morality
15. The Concern for Truth
The Politics of Sexuality
16. Sexual Morality and the Law
17. Sexual Choice, Sexual Act: Foucault and Homosexuality
Notes on the Power of Culture
18. The Functions of Literature
19. Contemporary Music and Its Public
20. The Masked Philosopher.
Index
About the Author(s)
Michel Foucault is one of the most influential, and controversial, thinkers of the twentieth century. His engagement with topics such as truth, power and language continues to exert significant influence on a huge range of disciplines, from philosophy, sociology and anthropology to history, politics, law, literature, religion and many others.
Born in Poitiers, France in October 1926, Foucault studied philosophy at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in Paris, securing degrees in both philosophy and psychology. He lectured there in philosophy and worked as a psychologist at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne in the early 1950s. His thesis, Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique , was published in 1961 and subsequently published in English as History of Madness by Routledge. It was hailed as "magnificent" by the renowned historian Fernand Braudel and announced the arrival of a major new voice in philosophy. Several other now-famous works followed, including The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge (all published by Routledge).
Foucault was also a renowned activist, campaigning tirelessly on behalf of homosexuals and for prison reform. He travelled to North America in the 1970s and 1980s to live what he termed "limit experiences" and write the three volumes of his History of Sexuality. Fatally ill with AIDS, Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984, at the age of fifty-seven.
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