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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Life, texts, contexts
• Intellectual contexts
• Archaeology and structuralism
• Nietzsche, genealogy, influence
• Disrupting disciplines
• Chapter 2 Works: madness and medicine
• The History of Madness
• The Birth of the Clinic
• Chapter 3 Works: the death of man
• The Order of Things
• The Order of Things: responses, critiques and intertexts
• The Archaeology of Knowledge
• Chapter 4 Works: authors and texts
• History and aesthetics
• Language in a vacuum
• Author functions
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Works: crime and punishment
• Pierre Rivière: peasant and parricide
• Comments on I Pierre Rivière…
• Punishing the body and soul
• Docile bodies
• Self-surveillance: the panopticon
• Concluding remarks on Discipline and Punish
• Chapter 6 Works: The History of Sexuality
• The Will to Knowledge
• Pleasure and the ancient world
• Ethics, Eros and freedom
• Chapter 7 Critical receptions
• Foucault and feminism
• Foucault and queer theory
• Afterword
• Notes
• 1. Life, texts, contexts
• 2. Works: madness and medicine
• 3. Works: the death of man
• 4. Works: authors and texts
• 5. Works: crime and punishment
• 6. Works: The History of Sexuality
• 7. Critical reception
• Afterword
• Selected further reading
• Index