For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society.
This revised edition contains five new essays and revisions of many others, and the extensive bibliography has been updated..
Special attention is also paid to thinkers and movements, from Kant through current feminist theory, that are particularly important for understanding his work and its impact.
The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Foucault\'s major themes and texts, from his early work on madness through his history of sexuality.
These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its relation to power structures, and have become major topics of discussion throughout the humanities and social sciences.
He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines.
For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society
