Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

The second volume in the definitive collection of Foucault's shorter writings. Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, the second volume of Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, surveys Foucault's diverse but sustained address of the historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and truth. Now in paperback, this volume includes commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Roussel, and Boulez. It also includes some of Foucault's most trenchant reflections on the historical constitution of aesthetic and critical imagination, providing unique insight into Foucault's original and hugely influential philosophical program.