Aesthetics: Essential Works

Michel Foucault was without doubt one of the most important and influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Aesthetics, Method and Epistemology is the second of three volumes collecting his most significant writings and interviews outside his published monographs. The writings in Volume II reveal the remarkable scope of Foucault's philosphical attention, which ranged over painting and music, architecture and film, literature and historiography, mathematics and linguistics, the life sciences and behavioural sciences; over Ancient Greece, the European Renaissance, the Englightenment, the Romantic period and the twentieth century. Concluding with Foucault's retrospective reflections on his own work, this volume provides a unique insight into the devleopment of Foucault's original and exemplary critical history of thought.