Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent twentieth-century French philosopher, who wrote prolifically. Many of his works were translated into English. Works from his later years remain unpublished.[1]
| OriginalYear | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Maladie mentale et personnalitéParis: Presses Universitaires de France. re-edited as Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962) | Mental Illness and Psychology translated by A. M. Sheridan-Smith. New York: Harper and Row (1976) reprinted as Madness: The Invention of an Idea. New York: Harper Perennial (2011) |
| 1961 | Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraisonParis: Plon | Madness and Civilization A History of Insanity in the Age of ReasonAbridged; translated by R. Howard. London: Tavistock (1965) History of Madness Unabridged; edited by Jean Khalfa, translated Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa. London: Routledge (2006) |
| 1963 | Naissance de la clinique – une archéologie du regard médicalParis: Presses Universitaires de France. | The Birth of the Clinic An Archaeology of Medical Perception |
| 1963 | Raymond Roussel Paris: Gallimard. | Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel |
| 1966 | Les mots et les choses – une archéologie des sciences humainesParis: Gallimard. | The Order of Things An Archaeology of the Human Sciences |
| 1969 | L'archéologie du savoirParis: Gallimard. | Archaeology of KnowledgeTranslated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. London: Routledge (2002) |
| 1971 | L'ordre du discoursParis: Gallimard. | "The Discourse on Language"Pp. 215–37 in Archaeology of Knowledge. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. New York: Pantheon (1972). |
| 1975 | Surveiller et punirParis: Gallimard. | Discipline and Punish The Birth of the Prison |
| 1976–1984 | Histoire de la sexualité
Paris: Gallimard. | The History of Sexuality
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| Year Given | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1970–71 | La Volonté de Savoir (2011) | Lectures on the Will to Know (2013)[3] |
| 1971–72 | Théories et Institutions Pénales (2015) | Penal Theories and Institutions (2019)[4] |
| 1972–73 | La Société Punitive (2013) | The Punitive Society (2015)[5] |
| 1973–74 | Le pouvoir psychiatrique (2003) | Psychiatric Power (2006)[6] |
| 1974–75 | Les anormaux (1999) | Abnormal (2004)[7] |
| 1975–76 | ″Il faut défendre la société″ (1997) | ″Society Must Be Defended″ (2003)[8] |
| 1977–78 | Sécurité, territoire, population (2004) | Security, Territory, Population (2007)[9] |
| 1978–79 | Naissance de la biopolitique (2004) | The Birth of Biopolitics (2008)[10] |
| 1979–80 | Du gouvernement des vivants (2012) | On the Government of the Living (2014)[11] |
| 1980–81 | Subjectivité et Vérité (2014) | Subjectivity and Truth (2017)[12] |
| 1981–82 | L'Herméneutique du sujet (2001) | The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005)[13] |
| 1982–83 | Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres (2008) | The Government of Self and Others (2010)[14] |
| 1983–84 | Le courage de la vérité (2009) | The Courage of Truth (2011)[15] |
In a 1967 lecture, titled in English as either "Different Spaces" or "Of Other Spaces"[16] (reprinted in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, and in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff), Foucault coined a novel concept of the heterotopia.
| Orig.Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère Paris: Gallimard. | I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister and my BrotherLondon: Penguin Book (1975) |
| 1978 | Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B.Paris: Gallimard. | Herculine BarbinNew York: Pantheon (1980) |
| 1982 | Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet with Arlette FargeParis: Gallimard. | Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2017) |
| Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" | This is not a pipe (1991) |
| 1980 | Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994 | Remarks on Marx (1991) |
| 2001 | Berkeley lecture series, never published in French | Fearless Speech (2001) |
| 2013 | Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l'aveu en justice (2012) | Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2013) |
In French, almost all of Foucault's shorter writings, published interviews and miscellany have been published in a collection called Dits et écrits, originally published in four volumes in 1994, latterly in only two volumes.
In English, there are a number of overlapping anthologies, which often use different translations of the overlapping pieces, frequently with different titles. Richard Lynch's bibliography of Foucault's shorter work is invaluable for keeping track of these multiple versions. The major collections in English are: