Politics, philosophy, culture : interviews and other writings, 1977-1984 / Michel Foucault ; translated by Alan Sheridan and others ; edited with an introduction by Lawrence D. Kritzman.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword -- Introduction : Foucault and the politics of experience / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- p.1. Self-portraits -- The minismalist self -- Critical theory / intellectual history -- An aesthetics of existence -- p.2. Theories of the political : history, power, and the law -- Politics and reason -- The art of telling the truth -- On power -- Power and sex -- The dangerous industrial -- Practicing criticism -- p.3. The politics of contemporary life -- Social security -- Confinement, psychiatry, prison -- Iran : the spirit of a world without spirit -- p.4. The ethics of sexuality -- The battle for chastity -- The return of morality -- The concern for truth -- p.5. The politics of sexuality -- Sexual morality and the law -- Sexual choice, sexual act : Foucault and homosexuality -- p.6 Notes on the power of culture -- The functions of literature -- Contemporary music and its public -- The masked philosopher.

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while also examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution. Foucault reflects critically on the crucial changes in his philosophical, political and cultural perspectives, ultimately revealing himself to be an unpretentious intellectual in search of "politics as ethics."