Two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question. In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Edlers to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and above all serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories. What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics (Chomsky) and the theory of knowledge (Foucault), soon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics, from science, history, and behaviorism to creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics. In addition to the debate itself, this volume features a newly written introduction by noted Foucault scholar John Rajchman and includes additional text by Noam Chomsky.

Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both in its present form and within a historical perspective as well as the different ways governmentality has been made thinkable and practicable. Foucault's thoughts on political discourse and governmentality are supplemented by the essays of internationally renowned scholars. United by the common influence of Foucault's approach, they explore the many modern manifestations of government: the reason of state, police, liberalism, security, social economy, insurance, solidarity, welfare, risk management, and more. The central theme is that the object and the activity of government are not instinctive and natural things, but things that have been invented and learned. The Foucault Effect analyzes the thought behind practices of government and argues that criticism represents a true force for change in attitudes and actions, and that extending the limits of some practices allows the invention of others. This unique and extraordinarily useful collection of articles and primary materials will open the way for a whole new set of discussions of the work of Michel Foucault as well as the status of liberalism, social policy, and insurance.

This book, which Foucault himself has judged accurate, is the first to provide a sustained, coherent analysis of Foucault's work as a whole. . To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault's work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method—"interpretative analytics"—capable fo explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subject and his tradition. . "There are many new secondary sources [on Foucault]. None surpass the book by Hubert Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow. . . . The American paperback edition contains Foucault's 'On the Genealogy of Ethics,' a lucid interview that is now our best source for seeing how he construed the whole project of the history of sexuality."—David Hoy, London Review of Books

《米歇尔·福柯:个人自主与教育》作者詹姆斯·屿歇尔撰写此书的目的是试图以一种与教育有关的方式在教育领域内把福柯的思想和理沦介绍给世人。詹姆斯·马歇尔认为，要想理解福柯的思想，必须去了解“二战”后法国的学术思潮和一些相关的知识，同时埘那些与福柯的思想相似或相同的思想、著作和思想家仃所了解，以此去认以福柯所采川、借鉴的观点、立场以及方法。

《激进的美学锋芒》为译者多年翻译之精选，以广阔的视野反映了20世纪西方美学和艺术等领域的发展脉络和主要问题，所选文献多为西方学界著名思想家和理论家的重要学术文章，所论述的是一些美学等领域的前沿问题，以此描绘出思想界复杂的激进理路。全书分四个专题，分别涉及现代性与后现代性、现代主义与先锋派、文化与文化研究、艺术史论与理论学派等方面。

吴猛，1975年生，河南平舆人，现为复旦大学哲学系博士生，研究方向为西方哲学史，发表论文多篇。 　　和新风，1974年生，河南平顶山人，复旦大学哲学系毕业，哲学硕士，现为《东方早报》记者。 簡介： 本書試圖將福柯思想通俗化，重視福柯思想的細節。書的第1章詳細介紹福柯生命中的成長階段；第2章至第8章包括他對瘋癲的話語分析表明，相對於瘋癲而言理性的統治地位並非如理性自己所言是〝自然〞的和〝理所當