Power: Essential Works of Foucault (vol 3)

The final volume in Michel Foucault's seminal Essential Works series, this collection of articles, interviews and lectures, many in English for the first time, brings together his most outspoken views on politics and power.

These provocative writings show Foucault challenging and subverting the institutions of power inherent in society. Drawing on works from the later years of his life, when he became an increasingly important public voice, they address the issues that he helped make the core of Western political culture: law, prisons, medicine, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discriminating and exclusion.

Articles and open letters published directly in response to the issues of the time call for reform in abortion, asylum and the death penalty, including a powerful attack on the guillotining of two prisoners in 1972. All the pieces here bring a new sense of Foucault's huge influence in the politics of personal freedom.