Thanks to his works, which can be considered a revolution against the violence of custom and normality, Michel Foucault became one of the most important thinkers of our time. Its influence on politics and culture remains entrenched to this day. Didier Eribon is one of the foremost experts on Foucault's thought.
In this autobiography, which has already become a classic, he succeeds in drawing a masterful picture linking the philosopher's work and life, and showing it within the intellectual structure and social struggles of his time.The revised new edition has been fully expanded to include many aspects, and is devoted in detail to Foucault's relations with Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, and Simone de Beauvoir.
Topics such as Foucault's relationship with sex and drugs are also being re-examined. Not only does it present a multifaceted portrait of Michel Foucault as an art-living theorist, authority critic, and committed thinker of distinction, it also offers a captivating panorama of French intellectual life in the second half of the twentieth century.
