Foucault and His Interlocutors (A Critical Inquiry Book) - Softcover

Containing the debate between Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky on epistemology and politics, this book also features significant essays by the most important French thinkers who influenced and were influenced by Foucault. Foucault's teachers, colleagues and collaborators take up his major claims, from his first to final works, and provide readers with the authoritative context in which to understand Foucault's writings. The contributors are Georges Canguilhem, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Pierre Hadot, Michel Serres and Paul Veyne. The book also includes several works by Foucault himself which were previously unpublished in English.