Power by Michel Foucault - Essential Works of Foucault Collection
This definitive volume brings together Michel Foucault's groundbreaking contributions to political analysis, examining how power operates within society's most fundamental institutions. Published by The New Press as part of the Essential Works of Foucault series, this paperback edition compiles articles, interviews, and seminars that shaped twentieth-century philosophical thought.
What's Inside This Collection
Power explores the domains Foucault helped establish as core to Western political culture: medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, and sexuality. The book expands on themes introduced in The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality, providing comprehensive insight into Foucault's revolutionary analysis of political conduct and personal freedom.
This volume features previously unpublished lectures alongside later writings that highlight Foucault's examination of power structures in everyday life. Interviews and personal letters illuminate the philosopher's own political activism, offering readers direct access to his thought process and intellectual development.
About Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) held a chair in the history of systems of thought at the Collège de France and lectured at universities worldwide. His influential works include Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, The Order of Things, and The History of Sexuality. The New Press has published several volumes in the Essential Works series, including Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, Ethics, and The Chomsky-Foucault Debate.
Editor's Expertise
James D. Faubion, professor of anthropology at Rice University, edited this volume. His expertise in contemporary French thought and anthropological theory makes him uniquely qualified to compile and contextualize Foucault's diverse writings on power and political analysis.
Academic and Intellectual Significance
As Edward Said noted in The New York Times Book Review, this work offers "a rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. Foucault's work leaves no reader untouched or unchanged."
Essential reading for students and scholars of continental philosophy, political theory, critical theory, and social analysis, this paperback edition provides accessible entry into Foucault's complex examination of how power functions in modern society.
