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This collection gives a complete picture of Foucault's importance as a thinker and social critic who transcended academic boundaries to challenge entrenched, institutionalized models of theoretical rationality and practical normalcy. (Philosophy)

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An invaluable addition to the growing body of literature on Foucault. The book contains 13 essays, some reprinted from other publications while others were written especially for this volume, which offers a variety of perspectives on Foucault and covers the development of his work from the early 1960s. The essays are written by such leading thinkers and interpreters of Foucault as Richard Rorty, Michael Walzer, Charles Taylor, J;urgen Habermas, Ian Hacking, Martin Jay, Hubert Dreyfus, and Paul Rabinow. Each essay pursues its own particular angle of interest; read all together, the essays provide one of the best expositions of Foucault's thought available. They do this by situating Foucault's thought historically and with respect to other contemporary thinkers. For example, these contexts enable comparisons between Foucault's project and that of Habermas, or between the early and the later Foucault. The essays introduce this difficult thinker to novices, at the same time engaging the interest of Foucault scholars. Recommended for all levels of readers.-J. Genova, The Colorado College