When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had
become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World
War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern medicine,
prisons, psychiatry, and other methods of classification have had a
lasting impact on philosophers, historians, critics, and novelists the
world over. But as public as he was in his militant campaigns on behalf
of prisoners, dissidents, and homosexuals, he shrouded his personal life
in mystery.In The Lives of Michel Foucault written with the full
cooperation of Daniel Defert, Foucault's former lover David Macey
gives the richest account to date of Foucault's life and work, informed
as it is by the complex issues arising from his writings.
In
this new edition, Foucault scholar Stuart Elden has contributed a new
postface assessing the contribution of the biography in the light of
more recent literature.
The Lives of Michel Foucault - David Macey
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