ABSTRACT
Michel Foucault died in 1984, almost ten years ago. At his death he left a considerable corpus of work, which had already provoked a huge mass of critical commentary for and against. Before his death in 1983 Michael Clark had just published his ‘annotated bibliography’ on Foucault, subtitled curiously ‘Tool Kit for a New Age’—still a useful source book since it summarizes many of Foucault’s more inaccessible pieces as well as the principal commentaries available at that date. Today, many items could be added—not merely the last and posthumous works of Foucault, but that enormous explosion of writing responding to, and taking off from, his ideas. However, in some areas, including feminist writing, Foucault’s influence has been unevenly developed since his death. This volume is a selection of some recent writing, influenced largely by the dominant interests of Foucault’s later period of work. As such it has much in common with the recent collections The Foucault Effect (edited by Burchell, Gordon and Miller) and Michel Foucault: Philosopher (edited by Armstrong).
