Foucault Resources

A list of the resources on this site relating to Foucault – bibliographies, audio and video files, some textual comparisons, some short translations, etc.

For details of English translations see the page at Foucault News

Many more resources available at foucault.info, Centre Michel Foucault resources online and Foucault News

Foucault’s library card, and some decipherment, is here

Bibliographies, Audio and Video

Elden, S. “The Uncollected Foucault“, Foucault Studies, No 20, 2015,  pp. 340-53 (open access).

Foucault’s uncollected notes, lectures and interviews – list with links

Foucault’s collaborative projects – a bibliography 

Généalogie des équipements de normalisation: Les équipements sanitaires – further details of one of Foucault’s collaborative projects

Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Foucault’s seminars at the Collège de France – a list of the preannounced titles

Foucault audio and video recordings – links to all the available ones online, ordered chronologically (last updated November 2019).

Foucault, crime and prisons – on film and online

Roundup of media discussion of Foucault’s Les Aveux de la chair (mostly French; some English)

Foucault’s History of Madness – a bibliographical chronology

Jean Hyppolite’s teaching at the Collège de France – ‘the history of philosophical thought’ – Foucault’s predecessor in the chair he held

Ludwig Binswanger German-French-English Bibliography – Foucault was involved in some translations, along with Jacqueline Verdeaux

Georges Bataille – Oeuvres complètes and other French collections; English translations – Foucault was involved in the editorial work, writing a preface to the first volume of Oeuvres

Additions to above welcome.

Textual Comparisons

What is an Author? From Paris to Buffalo – a note on why we don’t know what Foucault actually said in the second of these lectures

A minor note on the two versions of Foucault’s ‘This is Not a Pipe’, and the problems of the translation in Essential Works

The ‘Notice Historique’ to the translation of Kant’s Anthropology

Foucault’s Inaugural lecture at the Collège de France, L’ordre du discours – comparison of the two different versions

The two editions of Naissance de la clinique and the English translation The Birth of the Clinic – comparison of the texts – in progress, and building on the earlier post Which edition of Foucault’s Birth of the Clinic did Alan Sheridan actually translate? (11 February 2019)

The changes between Maladie mentale et personnalité (1954) and Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962)

The differences between the English and French versions of Foucault’s 1983 interview on Raymond Roussel

The textual issues around Foucault’s ‘What is an Author?’

History of Sexuality volume II – a comparison of the three different introductions

‘Rêver de ses plaisirs’ – comparison of the 1983 article and 1984 chapter

“About the Concept of the ‘Dangerous Individual’ in Legal Psychiatry of the 19th Century” – details of variant English and French texts (with the help of Javier Velásquez)

A detailed post asking “Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?“, outlining a number of issues with the existing translation Discipline and Punish (22 January 2014).

Other – questions, translations, etc.

A 1970 French interdisciplinary seminar on structuralism, attended by Foucault, Canguilhem, Bourdieu, Serres, Thom et. al., links to its published traces and a request for help

How many questions did Esprit ask Foucault…

When did Foucault translate Leo Spitzer?

‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration’ – a previously untranslated interview from 1979, by Felix de Montety

Foucault on Frans Hals, The Regents and the History of Madness

‘No Posthumous Publications’ – responses to some questions about Foucault and the future publication of the History of Sexuality Vol IV [updated August 2017 in the light of the news of its publication scheduled for 2018]

Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Foucault’s History of Sexuality – a table of Foucault’s various plans, with a list of his lecture courses and related material – last updated 9 November 2014 (pdf; jpg)

Graham Burchell – notes on the translation of ‘Society Must be Defended’, 4 November 2014

Graham Burchell – La société punitive: an editorial curiosity, 23 June 2014

Foucault on the State in 1975 – a previously untranslated comment

Foucault’s Order of Things diagram 

Foucault on Kant’s ‘What is Enlightenment?’ – a mini bibliography

‘Maurice Florence’ on Michel Foucault – the missing opening paragraph

Manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons – a full translation of the short text co-authored by Foucault, made in August 2013.

Foucault, “Cérémonie, théâtre et politique au XVIIe siècle”, 7 April 1972, English summary by Stephen Davidson. See also my discussion here and here.

A short previously untranslated comment by Foucault on religion, witches and madness – and the need for a structuralist study

The missing question from Foucault’s ‘Confession of the Flesh’ interview – a translation

A few translated excerpts from the discussion following Foucault’s ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’ lectures in Rio, 25 May 1973

The English language sources of Foucault’s L’origine de l’herméneutique de soi

A minor note on Michel Foucault and Peter Brown: From a watershed to the parting of the waters

Further details of my books Foucault’s Last Decade (Polity Press 2016), Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press 2017) and The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021) including updates on their writing. I am currently writing a book entitled The Archaeology of Foucault to complete the series- and there are updates on its research and writing here.