Essential Works: Power

Essential Works is a compelling collection of Foucault's written and spoken words outside his published monographs. Power, the third and final volume, brings together Foucault's contributions to the practice of political analysis - a collection of writings and interviews on the questions of power and the political from the last twelve years of his life. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make the core agenda of Western political culture - medicine, prisons, psychiatry, government and sexuality. Power highlights Foucault's hugely influential analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom. In what ways can reason and rationality create social order by coercively excluding those people of disordered and unreasonable conduct? What is the role of the 'truth-teller'? How should intellectuals and citizens deal with holders of governmental power? With many of these lectures, articles and interviews unavailable in English until now, this volume brings a new sense of the breadth of Foucault's work.