"Foucault must be reckoned with."--"The New York Times Book Review""Foucault has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions....He gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture."--"The New York Review of Books""Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are....[His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture."--"The Nation""Ideas spark off nearly every page...The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s] but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday."--"Bookforum"

Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. Arnold I. Davidson, Series Editor, is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA, and Professor of the Philosophy of Cultures at the UniversitA Ca'Foscari, Venice. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. Graham Burchell is a translator. As well as translating Foucault's lectures at the CollA]ge de France he has written essays on Foucault's work and was an editor of and contributor to the influential volume "The Foucault Effect. Studies in Governmentality."