MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984)

Select Chronological Bibliography

1961

Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique [1961]; repr. in a greatly abridged edition, Paris : Gallimard, 1972; ET of abridged edition: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Random House, 1965; Vintage Books, 1988.

[Reviewed by Jacques Derrida, “Cogito and the History of Madness,” In Writing and Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978) 31-63]

1963

Naissance de la clinique. PUF, 1963; ET: Birth of the Clinic. New York: Random House, 1973.

1964

“Nietzsche, Freud, Marx,” in Nietzsche, Cahiers du Royaumont. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964, 183-200 (based on a “round table ” discussion held at Royaumont, July 4-8, 1964); trans. “Nietzsche, Freud, Marx,” In Gayle L. Ormiston, Alan D. Schrift (eds). Transforming the Hermeneutic Context. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1990, 59-67.

1966

Les Mots et les Choses. Paris: Gallimard, 1966; ET: The Order of Things New York: Pantheon, 1970. [see 1970 below, “Forward to English Edition”]

1967

“Des Espace Autres,” Architecture /Mouvement/Continuité (Oct. 1984); ET: Hetertopias of Other Spaces Trans. Jay Miskowiec. this text was the basis of a lecture given by Foucault in March 1967. Although not reviewed for publication by the author and thus not part of the official corpus of his work, the manuscript was released into the public domain for an exhibition in Berlin shortly before Michel Foucault’s death.

1968

“Ceci n’est pas une pipe,” In Les Cahiers du chemin, n° 2 (15 janvier) 1968, 79-195; repr. This is not a pipe. With illustrations and Letters by René Magritte. Trans. and Edited by James Harkness. Berkeley/Los Angelas/London: University of California Press, 1983. [nb: this version has significant variations from the version in Dit et Ecrits.]; repr. “This is not a pipe,” Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology, Ed. J. Faubion. Trans. James Harkness, modified. NY: New Press, 1998, 187-203.

1969

Michel Foucault, “Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur?” Bulletin de la Société française de Philosophie 63, No. 3 (1969) 73-104; repr. Michel Foucault, “What Is an Author?” Language, Counter-memory, Practice, Ed. Donald F. Bouchard, Trans. D. F. Bouchard, Sherry Simon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977) 113-38. 

L’Archéologie du savoir. Paris : Gallimard, 1969; ET: The Archaeology of Knowledge. New York: Tavistok Publications/Pantheon, 1972.

[Reviewed by Edward Said, “An Ethics of Language,” Diacritics summer (1974) 28-37]

1970

“Foward to the English edition,” The Order of Things (1970) ix-xiv. [see 1966]

Theatrum Philosophicum,” Critique 282 (1970) 885-908; repr. in Language, Counter-memory, Practice (1977) 165-96. (Review of Gilles Deleuze’s Logique du sens [1969], and Différence et répétition [1968])

“L’Ordre du discours,” Inaugural lecture at Collège de France delivered on 2 December 1970. Printed: L’ Ordre du discours. Paris : Gallimard, 1971; ET: “Discourse on Language,” trans. Rupert Swyer in Social Science Information 10/2 (April 1971) 7-30; see list of corrections to this translation by Meaghan Morris in included in M. Morris and P. Patton, eds., Michel Foucault: power, truth, strategy. Sydney, Australia: Feral Publications, 1979, 102-5; Swyer’s translation was reprinted as “The discourse on language,” In The Archæology of knowledge, 215-37 [see 1969]. A more accurate translation of this text was published in 1981: “The Order of Discourse,” trans. Ian McLeod in R. Young (ed.), Untying the Text: A Poststructuralist Reader (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981) 48-78.

1971

“Nietzsche, la genealogie, l’histoire,” In S. Bachelard, et al., Hommage à Jean Hyppolite. Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 1971, 145-72; repr. Language, Counter-memory, Practice (1977) 139-64.

1972

“Genealogy and social Criticism,” Reprinted in: Steven Seidman, The Postmodern Turn: New Perspectives on Social Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

1974

“Truth and Judicial Forms,” In Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984: Vol. 3. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: The New Press.

1975

Surveiller et Punir. Paris : Gallimard, 1975; ET: Discipline and Punish New York: Pantheon, 1977.

1976

Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France 1975-1976. Trans. David Macey. New York: Picador, 1997.

Histoire de la sexualité 1 - La Volonté de savoir. Paris : Gallimard, 1976; ET: The History of Sexuality, Vol. I: An Introduction. New York: Pantheon, 1978; Vintage Books, 1990.

1977

“The Eye of Power,” In Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. Ed. and Trans. C. Gordon, New York: Pantheon, 1980, 146-65.

“The Eye of Power,” Foucault Live (Interviews, 1961-1984). Ed. S. Lotringer, Trans. Mark S. Seem, translation modified. New York: Semiotext(e), 1996, 226-40.

1982

“The Subject and Power,” In H. J. Dreyfus, P. Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. Chicago: Univ.of Chicago, 1982, 208-26.

1984

Histoire de la sexualité 2 - L’Usage des plaisirs. Paris : Gallimard, 1984; ET: The History of Sexuality, Vol. II: The Use of Pleasure. New York: Random House, 1985; Vintage Books, 1990.

Histoire de la sexualité 3 - Le Souci de soi. Paris : Gallimard, 1984; ET: The History of Sexuality, Vol. III: The Care of the Self. New York: Random House, 1986; Vintage Books, 1990.

“What is Enlightenment?” In Paul Rabinow (ed.), The Foucault Reader. Trans. Catherine Porter. New York: Pantheon, 1984, 32-50; “What is Enlightenment?” Paul Rabinow (ed.), Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. Trans. Catherine Porter, amended. New York: New Press, 1997, 303-19; “What is Enlightenment?” S. Lotringer (ed.), Politics of Truth. Semiotext(e), 1997, 101-33. Trans. Catherine Porter. [Reprint of 1 above.]

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Dits et écrits, 1980-1988, vol I-IV, édités par D. Defert et F. Ewald. Paris: Gallimard, 1994; ET: The Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984.

Vol. I: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. New: York: The New Press 1997.
Vol. II: Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Vol. III: Power. New York: The New Press, 2000.

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