Question the assumptions that govern us.
Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records present nine major books and distinguish the 2018 posthumous manuscript from volumes published in 1984. Other books, Collège de France lectures, articles, interviews, correspondence and archives are not yet fully indexed; this is a selection, not a complete bibliography.
His thesis appeared in 1961 under a longer title; abridged editions and translations do not always reproduce the full text. Its historical interpretations and access to the speech of confined people remain contested.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Published in 1963, it combines history of medicine with inquiry into the conditions making particular statements possible. It does not reduce medicine to mere illusion.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Published in 1966 and opened by a reading of Velázquez’s Las Meninas, the work investigates breaks in the order of knowledge. Its grouping of periods has prompted historical criticism.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Published in 1969 after several historical studies, it reformulates and revises earlier approaches. Archive also names a historical system of statements, not merely a repository of documents.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Published in 1975 after his prison research and activism, the book joins penal archives to analysis of modern arrangements. Its historical generalizations and use of the panopticon have been debated.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The first volume appeared in 1976; later volumes transformed its announced program. Its argument about discourse does not deny that repression exists.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The second volume appeared in 1984 and moved the inquiry toward ancient Greece and a history of ethical practices. Its sources and selection of texts have been debated.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)The third volume, published in 1984, chiefly examines the first centuries CE. Its analyses extend and alter the questions of The Use of Pleasure.
Explore this workVisit the source(new tab)Edited by Frédéric Gros and published in 2018 from a manuscript left by Foucault, it is posthumous. Its editorial status rules out presenting it as a book personally published and completed in 1984.
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