Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," but before he was Professor at University of Tunis, Tunisia, and then Professor at University Paris VIII. He lectured at several different Universities over the world as at the University at Buffalo, the University of California, Berkeley and University of São Paulo, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and discourse have been widely influential in academic circles. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the poststructuralist and postmodernist labels later attributed to him, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Immanuel Kant. Foucault's project was particularly influenced by Nietzsche, his "genealogy of knowledge" being a direct allusion to Nietzsche's "genealogy of morality". In a late interview he definitively stated: "I am a Nietzschean." Foucault was listed as the most cited scholar in the humanities in 2007 by the ISI Web of Science.
Series
Books
El poder, una bestia magnífica
sobre el poder, la prisión y la vida
2012
The Government of Self and Others
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983
2008
The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-1982
2001
What is an Author?
1969
Dits et écrits, tome I
1954-1975
2001
Šta je kritika?
2018
Antologia
L'impazienza della libertà
2005
Medicina e biopolitica. La salute pubblica e il controllo sociale
2021
Alternative alla prigione
2021
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
An Introduction
1976
Religion and Culture
1999
This Is Not a Pipe
1968
Power/Knowledge
Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
1977
The Spectacle of the Scaffold
2009
Language, Counter-Memory, Practice
Selected Essays and Interviews
1977
Speech Begins after Death
2013
The Punitive Society
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973
1973
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3
The Care of the Self
1984
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
1984
Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
1975
Güzel Tehlike
2011
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
1969
Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
2004
Mental Illness and Psychology
1954
La verdad y las formas jurídicas
1990
Ethics
Subjectivity and Truth
1997
Was ist Kritik?
2015
Technologies of the Self
A Seminar with Michel Foucault
1988
Die Ordnung DES Diskurses by Michel Foucault
1970
The Courage of Truth
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984
2009
VIDA DE LOS HOMBRES INFAMES LA
1977
Nietzsche, Freud, Marx
1965
Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias
1967
El sujeto y el poder
2025
Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
2017
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
1975
The Order of Things
An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
1966
Society Must Be Defended
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
1992
The Birth of the Clinic
An Archaeology of Medical Perception
1963
The Foucault Reader
An Introduction to Foucault's Thought
1984
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self
Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
2015
The Foucault Effect
Studies in Governmentality
1991
Subjectivity and Truth
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981
2014
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
1998
Foucault Live
1989
On the Government of the Living
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980
1980
The Birth of Biopolitics
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
2004
Fearless Speech
1983
The Politics of Truth
1997
Manet and the Object of Painting
1999
Penal Theories and Institutions
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971-1972
2015
EL PENSAMIENTO DEL AFUERA
1986
Introduction to Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View
1798
Un diálogo sobre el poder y otras conversaciones
1981
Dits et écrits, tome II
1976-1988
2001
Dream and Existence
1930
The History of Sexuality
4: Confessions of the Flesh
2018
I, Pierre Rivière, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother…
A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
1973
Power
2000
Politics, Philosophy, Culture
Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984
1988
ایرانیها چه رویایی در سر دارند؟
1998
Remarks on Marx
Conversations with Duccio Trombadori
1991
Language, Madness, and Desire
On Literature
2015
ایران
روح یک جهان بیروح
2000
Nietzsche, la Genealogía, la Historia
2001
Madness and Civilization
A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
1961
Psychiatric Power
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973-1974
2003
Death and the Labyrinth
The World of Raymond Roussel
1963
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling
The Function of Avowal in Justice
1994
Foucault | Blanchot
Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside, and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him
1966
The Essential Foucault
Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984
2003
Zło czynić, mówić prawdę
2018
Lectures on the Will to Know
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971, & Oedipal Knowledge
2014
