Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984 / Edition 2

by Michel Foucault, Sylvere Lotringer

Overview

The most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date, including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984.

Currently in its fourth printing, Foucault Live is the most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date. Composed of every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984, Foucault Live sheds new light on the philosopher's ideas about friendship, the intent behind his classical studies, while clarifying many of the professional and popular misinterpretations of his ideas over the course of his career. As Gilles Deleuze noted, "the interviews in this book go much further than anything Foucault ever wrote, and they are indispensable in understanding his life work." Most notably, Foucault Live includes interviews he made with the gay underground press during his stays in America during the 1970s. In them, Foucault suggests that homosexuality presents a new paradigm for ways of living beyond the predictable, binary couple. All of the philosopher's interests, from madness and delinquency to film and sexuality, and their resultant writings, are probed by knowledgeable critics and journalists. After reading this book, the reader can explore key notions such as episteme, savoir and connaissance, archeology, and archive, without the knitted brow that plagued Foucault's public when he was alive. This is the guide to Foucault's life as an agent provocateur in the world of philosophy and scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570270185
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	01/01/1996
Series:	Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
Edition description:	Expanded Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Michel Foucault (1926–84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.

Sylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.

John Johnston is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Carnival of Repetition and Information Multiplicity.

Table of Contents

1	Madness Only Exists in Society	7
2	Andre Breton: A Literature of Knowledge	10
3	The Order of Things	13
4	The Discourse of History	19
5	History, Discourse and Discontinuity	33
6	Foucault Responds to Sartre	51
7	The Archeology of Knowledge	57
8	The Birth of a World	65
9	Rituals of Exclusion	68
10	Intellectuals and Power	74
11	Confining Societies	83
12	An Historian of Culture	95
13	Equipments of Power	105
14	On Attica	113
15	Film and Popular Memory	122
16	Talk Show	133
17	From Torture to Cellblock	146
18	On Literature	150
19	Schizo--Culture: Infantile Sexuality	154
20	Schizo--Culture: On Prison and Psychiatry	168
21	Paul's Story	181
22	Sade: Sargeant of Sex	186
23	The Politics of Soviet Crime	190
24	The Social Extension of the Norm	196
25	Sorcery and Madness	200
26	I, Pierre Riviere	203
27	Power Affects the Body	207
28	The End of the Monarchy of Sex	214
29	The Eye of Power	226
30	The Anxiety of Judging	241
31	Clarifications on the Question of Power	255
32	The Danger of Child Sexuality	264
33	The Impossible Prison	275
34	White Magic and Black Gown	287
35	"Paris-Berlin"	292
36	The Simplest of Pleasures	295
37	Truth is in the Future	298
38	The Masked Philosopher	302
39	Friendship as a Way of Life	308
40	Passion According to Werner Schroeter	313
41	Sexual Choice, Sexual Act	322
42	Space, Knowledge and Power	335
43	How Much Does it Cost for Reason to Tell the Truth?	348
44	History and Homosexuality	363
45	An Ethics of Pleasure	371
46	Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity	382
47	The Cultural Insularity of Contemporary Music	391
48	Archeology of a Passion	397
49	What Our Present Is	407
50	Problematics	416
51	What Calls for Punishment?	423
52	The Ethics of the Concern for Self	432
53	An Aesthetics of Existence	450
54	The Concern for Truth	455
55	The Return of Morality	465
	Bibliography and Acknowledgements	474