The essential Foucault : selections from essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984 /
edited by Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose.
- New York : New Press, c2003.
- xxxv, 460 p. ; 24 cm.
Rev. ed. of: The essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984. c1997-c2000.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Foucault today / Paul Rabinow and Nikolas Rose -- Foucault / [Maurice Florence] -- Life: experience and science -- Polemics, politics, and problematizations: an interview with Michel Foucault -- The ethics of the concern of the self as a practice of freedom -- What is enlightenment? -- Preface to The history of sexuality, volume two -- Confronting governments: human rights -- The risks of security -- Structuralism and post-structuralism -- On the genealogy of ethics: an overview of work in progress -- The subject and power -- Technologies of the self -- So it is important to think? -- The masked philosopher -- "Omnes et singulatim": toward a critique of political reason -- The birth of biopolitics -- About the concept of the "dangerous individual" in nineteenth-century legal psychiatry -- Governmentality -- Questions of method -- Security, territory, and population -- What is critique? -- Lives of infamous men -- Society must be defended -- Truth and power -- The birth of social medicine -- The politics of health in the eighteenth century -- Nietzsche, genealogy, history -- Madness and society -- What is an author? -- On the archaeology of the sciences: response to the epistemology circle -- The thought of the outside -- A preface to transgression.