I’ve been planning another book on Foucault for many years. The idea is to write a history of the ‘History of Sexuality’ – tracing the emergence of the project, the original plan, and the various revisions before it was left incomplete at Foucault’s death. I’ve published a number of pieces over the past decade that will be utilised in this planned book, beginning with a review essay of Les Anormaux and continuing through pieces on most of the other lecture courses and some on his collaborative projects of the mid 1970s. Recently, and somewhat to my surprise, I’ve been looking at the materials again with a view to working on this book alongside the planned one on The Space of the World. All the chapters will be new, though a few will utilise previously published material in reworked, updated and developed form.

In 2005 I published a piece entitled ‘The Problem of Confession’, freely available here. which had a lot of discussion of the different plans and the issues that revolved around them. That piece had a summary table of the plans, the lecture courses and related material. I’ve updated the table in the light of new publications and information. It’s in a pdf here; or click on the image below for a larger version (updated 2013). It might be useful to others.