In March last year I shared news of the discovery of typescript versions of Foucault’s two theses – what became the History of Madness and his introduction and translation of Kant’s Anthropology, annotated by Foucault – Emmanuel le Doeff, À la découverte des thèses annotées de Michel Foucault (open access).

The theses have now been fully digitised and are available here:

Folie et déraison. Histoire de l’expérience de la folie à l’âge classique (3 volumes)

Introduction à l’Anthropologie de Kant (2 volumes)

As I said at the time:

When I was researching The Early Foucault, I was curious about the early versions of Folie et déraison, but there was no typescript of this kind in Foucault’s own archive, or in Canguilhem’s. I did manage to see a copy of the printed text bound for the defence, which was the same as the 1961 Plon version except for the cover and endpapers. The history of the book’s printing and variants still causes confusion – there is a list of the different versions here. The version discussed in the above article obviously precedes all of these printed versions – a fascinating addition to the story of this text.

Emmanuel has a new piece describing the work here – Les thèses annotées de Michel Foucault sont désormais en ligne sur Numerabilis (open access). That article closes:

Nous espérons que la mise à disposition de ces documents à destination du public des spécialistes comme de toute personne intéressée par l’œuvre de Michel Foucault permettra de mieux comprendre les procédés d’écriture de celui qui reste l’un des plus importants philosophes contemporains.