ABSTRACT

This major collection brings Foucault's later work into sharp focus and illustrates some of the ways in which it is informing developments in the social sciences. Concise, clear and wide-ranging it provides an essential accessory to the understanding one of the key thinkers in the twentieth century.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

The project of Michel Foucault

chapter 2|17 pages

Question, ethos, event

Foucault on Kant and Enlightenment

chapter 3|13 pages

Michel Foucault (1926-84)

The Will to Knowledge *

chapter 5|31 pages

Governing economic life

chapter 7|14 pages

Expertise and the state

chapter 8|40 pages

Personality as a vocation

The political rationality of the humanities

chapter 9|23 pages

Archaeologizing genealogy

Michel Foucault and the economy of austerity