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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction Very Short Introductions are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts, and have been published in more than 25 languages worldwide. The series began in 1995, and now represents a wide variety of topics in history, philosophy, religion, science, and the humanities. Over the next few years it will grow to a library of around 200 volumes – a Very Short Introduction to everything from ancient Egypt and Indian philosophy to conceptual art and cosmology. 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Allan Hobson RENAISSANCE ART ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta Geraldine Johnson THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball ROMAN EMPIRE THE END OF THE WORLD Christopher Kelly Bill McGuire SARTRE Christina Howells EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt FEMINISM Margaret Walters SOCIALISM Michael Newman THE FIRST WORLD WAR TIME Leofranc Holford-Strevens Michael Howard TRAGEDY Adrian Poole FUNDAMENTALISM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Malise Ruthven Martin Conway Habermas Gordon Finlayson THE WORLD TRADE HUMAN EVOLUTION ORGANIZATION Bernard Wood Amrita Narlikar For more information visit our web site www.oup.co.uk/vsi/ Gary Gutting FOUCAULT A Very Short Introduction 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford ox2 6dp Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York AucklandCape Town Dar es SalaamHong Kong Karachi Kuala LumpurMadridMelbourneMexico CityNairobi New DelhiShanghaiTaipeiToronto With offices in ArgentinaAustriaBrazilChileCzech RepublicFranceGreece GuatemalaHungary ItalyJapanSouth KoreaPolandPortugal SingaporeSwitzerland ThailandTurkeyUkraineVietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Gary Gutting 2005 The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published as a Very Short Introduction 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics rights organizations. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Gutting, Gary. Foucault : a very short introduction / Gary Gutting. p. cm.—(A very short introduction) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Foucault, Michel. I. Title. II. Very short introductions. B2430.F724G86 2005 194—dc22 2004030575 ISBN 0-19-280557-6 (alk. paper) EAN 9780192805577 13579108642 Typeset by RefineCatch Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd., Padstow, Cornwall To Anastasia as always with love Contents Acknowledgements xi Abbreviations xiii List of illustrations xv 1 Lives and works 1 2 Literature 10 3 Politics 20 4 Archaeology 32 5 Genealogy 43 6 The masked philosopher 54 7 Madness 68 8 Crime and punishment 79 9 Modern sex 91 10 Ancient sex 101 References and further reading 111 Index 121 Acknowledgements I wrote the first draft of this essay during summer 2003, in conjunction with my seminar on Foucault at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt. Many thanks to Axel Honneth for his invitation and many kindnesses, to the students in my Foucault seminar for their interest and questions, and to the staff at the Literaturhaus Restaurant (especially Oliver and Franz) for their hospitality, good food, and splendid wine. As always, the first and best reader of my manuscript was my wife, Anastasia Friel Gutting. I am also grateful for very helpful comments from Jerry Bruns and Todd May. My thanks to Marsha Filion of OUP for suggesting and supporting this project.
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