Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English. Works from his later years remain unpublished.[1]

Monographs

Original

Year

Original French English Translation
1954 Maladie mentale et personnalité

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

re-edited as Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962)

Mental Illness and Psychology

translated by A. M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Harper and Row (1976)

reprinted as Madness: The Invention of an Idea. New York: Harper Perennial (2011)

1961 Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraison

Paris: Plon

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Abridged; translated by R. Howard. London: Tavistock (1965)

History of Madness

Unabridged; edited by Jean Khalfa, translated Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa. London: Routledge (2006)

1963 Naissance de la clinique – une archéologie du regard médical

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
1963 Raymond Roussel

Paris: Gallimard.

Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel
1966 Les mots et les choses – une archéologie des sciences humaines

Paris: Gallimard.

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
1969 L'archéologie du savoir

Paris: Gallimard.

Archaeology of Knowledge

Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. London: Routledge (2002)

1971 L'ordre du discours

Paris: Gallimard.

"The Discourse on Language"

Pp. 215–37 in Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon (1972).

1975 Surveiller et punir

Paris: Gallimard.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
1976–1984 Histoire de la sexualité
  • Vol I: La Volonté de savoir (1976)
  • Vol II: L'Usage des plaisirs (1984)
  • Vol III: Le Souci de soi (1984)
  • Vol IV: Les aveux de la chair (2018)[2]

Paris: Gallimard.

The History of Sexuality
  • Vol I: The Will to Knowledge
  • Vol II: The Use of Pleasure
  • Vol III: The Care of the Self
  • Vol IV: The Confessions of the Flesh

Collège de France Course Lectures

Year Given Original French English Translation
1970–71 La Volonté de Savoir (2011) Lectures on the Will to Know (2013)[3]
1971–72 Théories et Institutions Pénales (2015) Penal Theories and Institutions (2019)[4]
1972–73 La Société Punitive (2013) The Punitive Society (2015)[5]
1973–74 Le pouvoir psychiatrique (2003) Psychiatric Power (2006)[6]
1974–75 Les anormaux (1999) Abnormal (2004)[7]
1975–76 ″Il faut défendre la société″ (1997) ″Society Must Be Defended″ (2003)[8]
1977–78 Sécurité, territoire, population (2004) Security, Territory, Population (2007)[9]
1978–79 Naissance de la biopolitique (2004) The Birth of Biopolitics (2008)[10]
1979–80 Du gouvernement des vivants (2012) On the Government of the Living (2014)[11]
1980–81 Subjectivité et Vérité (2014) Subjectivity and Truth (2017)[12]
1981–82 L'Herméneutique du sujet (2001) The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005)[13]
1982–83 Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres (2008) The Government of Self and Others (2010)[14]
1983–84 Le courage de la vérité (2009) The Courage of Truth (2011)[15]

Other Lectures

In a 1967 lecture, titled in English as either "Different Spaces" or "Of Other Spaces"[16] (reprinted in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, and in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff), Foucault coined a novel concept of the heterotopia.

Collaborative works

Orig.

Year

Original French English Translation
1973 Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère

Paris: Gallimard.

I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister and my Brother

London: Penguin Book (1975)

1978 Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B.

Paris: Gallimard.

Herculine Barbin

New York: Pantheon (1980)

1982 Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet with Arlette Farge

Paris: Gallimard.

Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2017)

Other books

Year Original French English Translation
1968 "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" This is not a pipe (1991)
1980 Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994 Remarks on Marx (1991)
2001 Berkeley lecture series, never published in French Fearless Speech (2001)
2013 Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l'aveu en justice (2012) Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2013)

Anthologies

In French, almost all of Foucault's shorter writings, published interviews and miscellany have been published in a collection called Dits et écrits, originally published in four volumes in 1994, latterly in only two volumes.

In English, there are a number of overlapping anthologies, which often use conflicting translations of the overlapping pieces, frequently with different titles. Richard Lynch's bibliography of Foucault's shorter work is invaluable for keeping track of these multiple versions. The major collections in English are:

Works available online

References

  1. ^ Kuznicki, Jason (2008). "Foucault, Michel (1926–1984)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 189–81. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n110. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024. ...and still more of [his work] was destroyed [after his death]....
  2. ^ Les aveux de la chaire
  3. ^ Foucault, Michel (2013). Lectures on the Will to Know. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403986566.
  4. ^ Foucault, Michel (2019). Penal Theories and Institutions: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1971–1972. London: Picador. ISBN 9783319992914.
  5. ^ Foucault, Michel (2015). The Punitive Society. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403986603.
  6. ^ Foucault, Michel (2008). Psychiatric Power: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973–1974. London: Picador. ISBN 9780312203313.
  7. ^ Foucault, Michel (2004). Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–1975. London: Picador. ISBN 9780312424053.
  8. ^ Foucault, Michel (2003). Society must be defended" : lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–76. London: Picador. ISBN 9780312422660.
  9. ^ Foucault, Michel (2009). Security, territory, population : lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978. New York: Picador/Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312203603.
  10. ^ Foucault, Michel (2010). The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979. London: Picador. ISBN 9780312203412.
  11. ^ Foucault, Michel (2014). On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979–1980. London: Picador. ISBN 9781403986627.
  12. ^ Foucault, Michel (2017). Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980–1981. London: Picador. ISBN 9781403986641.
  13. ^ Foucault, Michel (2006). The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981–1982. London: Picador. ISBN 9780312425708.
  14. ^ Foucault, Michel (2011). The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–1983. New York: Picador/Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780312572921.
  15. ^ Foucault, Michel (2012). The Courage of Truth (The Government of Self and Others II): Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983–1984. London: Picador. ISBN 9781250009104.
  16. ^ "Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias". Foucault.info. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  17. ^ "The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault". Marxists.org. Retrieved 2008-09-21.
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