An Overly Simplistic and Wildly Inaccurate Genealogy of the Work of
Michel Foucault
A. Archaeology
(1) Madness
and Medicine
- Maladie mentale et personnalité (1954)
- Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962). Trans. Alan
Sheridan as Mental Illness and Psychology (New York: Harper and Row,
1976)
- Folie et déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
(1961). Trans Richard Howard as Madness and Civilization: A History of
Insanity in the Age of Reason (New York: Pantheon, 1965)
- Naissance de la clinique. Une archéologie du régard médical
(1963). Trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith as The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology
of Medical Perception (New York: Panthewon, 1973). [BOC]
(2) Knowledge
- Les Mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines
(1966). Trans. Alan Sheridan as The Order of Things: An Archaeology of
the Human Sciences (NY: Vintage, 1970). [OT]
- L'Archéologie du savoir (1969). Trans. Alan Sheridan,
The Archaeology of Knowledge (NY: Pantheon, 1972). [AOK]
(3) Literature
and Philosophy
- Raymond Roussel (1962) Trans. Charles Ruas as Death
and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel (Garden City, NJ: Doubleday,
1986).
- Hommage à Georges Bataille (1963). Trans. as "A Preface
to Transgression," in Donald F. Bouchard, ed., Language, Countermemory,
Practice (Ithaca: Cornell, 1977) [LCM]
- "Language to Infinity" (1963) trans. in LCM. (On Blanchot.
I dont know the French title for this piece).
- La pensée du dehors (1966). Trans. Brian Massumi as
"Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside," in Foucault/Blanchot
(NY: Zone, 1987).
B. Genealogy
(1) The death of the subject and the role of history
(2) The Role of theory
(3) Power, knowledge, and the
body
- Ed., Moi, Pierre Rivière ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur
et mon frère (1973). Trans. Frank Jellinik as I, Pierre Rivière, having
slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother: A Case of Parricide in the
19th Century (NY: Random House, 1975).
- Surveiller et punir. Naissance de la prison (1975).
Trans. Alan Sheridan as Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New
York: Pantheon, 1977).
(4) Sexuality and resistance
- La
Volonté de savoir Vol. 1 of Histoire de la sexualité (1976). Trans.
Robert Hurley as The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction
(NY: Pantheon, 1978).
- Le
jeu de Michel Foucault (1977). Trans. Alain Grosrichard as "The Confession
of the Flesh," in Colin Gordon, ed., Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews
and Other Writings 1972-1977 (NY: Pantheon, 1980).
- Colloqui
con Foucault (1978). Interview with Duccio Trombadori (Italian). Trans.
R. James Goldstein and James Cascaito as Remarks on Marx (NY: Semiotext(e),
1991).
- Herculine Barbin,
dite Alexina B. (1978). Trans. Richard McDougall as Herculine Barbin:
Being the Recently Disclosed Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite
(NY: Pantheon, 1980).
- What
is Enlightenment: Was ist Aüfklarung? unpublished ms., trans. Catherine
Porter in Paul Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader (NY: Pantheon, 1984).
(5) The
construction of the self
- Afterword: On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of
Work in Progress, in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, eds., Michel
Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: U Chicago, 1982).
- L'Usage des plaisirs. Vol. 2 of Histoire de la sexualité
(1984). Trans. Robert Hurley as The Use of Pleasure (NY: Pantheon,
1985).
- Le Souci de soi. Vol. III of Histoire de la sexualité
(1984). Trans. Robert Hurley as The Care of the Self (NY: Pantheon,
1986).
Special thanks to EvenPierre for correcting egregious spelling
errors in my French titles!
Text ©1995 by Ben Attias