Michel Foucault

foucaultThis interview dates from June 1975 when Michel Foucault published Surveiller et Punir (Surveillance and punishment), subtitled: Naissance ‘de la Prison (Birth of the Prison). This book can be seen as forming a trilogy with Foucault’s Madness and Civilisation (1961) and Birth of the Clinic (1963); each work traces the genealogy of an institution (asylum, teaching hospital, prison) and of the human science symbiotically linked with it (psychiatry, clinical medicine, criminology/penology). Foucault has since published a further book, La volonte de savoir (The will to knowledge), an introduction to a projected six-volume history of sexuality in the West. His other books available in English are Psychiatry and Mental Illness, The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge. This interview first appeared in Le magazine litteraire; the interviewer was J. -J. Brochier…

 


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