ABSTRACT
Colin Gordon begins by describing Foucault’s Madness and Civilization as ‘a famous book’. He might also have added that Foucault remains an extremely elusive author. Gordon’s approach to these elusive qualities in Foucault’s work, together with a number of controversies which have surrounded it, is to brand these as ‘misunderstandings’ which can then be corrected by a return to textual foundations and a ‘correct’ reading.
