时至今日，德勒兹与福柯已成为20世纪西方思想史上的两则传奇。不读德勒兹的《德勒兹论福柯》，便不能说了解福柯。因为在德勒兹之后，福柯已不是原来的福柯，就如弗洛伊德在拉康之后，不再是原来的弗洛伊德一样。德勒兹与福柯这两颗法国思想界的熠熠红星在本书中一起迸放光芒，使福柯成为理解德勒兹的一扇重要窗口，使德勒兹成为透视福柯的不二法门。由福柯到德勒兹，再由德勒兹到福柯，两股思想之流不断地牵引、碰撞、发光与褶皱，本书所呈现的正是这般奇诡景致。

When one defines order as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in The Order of Things, possibly one of the most significant, yet most overlooked, works of the twentieth century. Eclipsed by his later work on power and discourse, nonetheless it was The Order of Things that established Foucault's reputation as an intellectual giant. Pirouetting around the outer edge of language, Foucault unsettles the surface of literary writing. In describing the limitations of our usual taxonomies, he opens the door onto a whole new system of thought, one ripe with what he calls exotic charm. Intellectual pyrotechnics from the master of critical thinking, this book is crucial reading for those who wish to gain insight into that odd beast called Postmodernism, and a must for any fan of Foucault.

In the middle ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the eighteenth century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and this in effect meant a change from punishment, which chastised the body, to reform, which touched the soul. Foucault shows in fascinating detail the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies of social control --- and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole. He also reveals that the comparison between a school and a prison is not purely facetious --- prisons, schools, factories, barracks and hospitals all share a common organization, in which it is possible to control the use of an individual's time and space hour by hour.

什麼是知識？知識如何產生、發展、改變或消失？傅柯是當代歐洲文化、思想史最受矚目的學者之一，他拆解西方理性迷思，質疑歷史法則邏輯，重普知識衍生、傳佈的脈絡。 相對於傳統史學，其「考掘學」將歷史流程空間化、暴露知識體系的斷層，從而顯示意義、法理、道統的權宜性與擴散性；立論曲折，引人思辯，是觀察世紀末西方人文現象的重要入門。

《临床医学的诞生》是米歇尔·福柯的一部医学史研究专著，探讨现代意义上的医学，也就是临床医学的诞生的历史。作者以18、19世纪众多著名的临床医学家的著作和各种相关领域的文献为依据，从历史和批评的角度研究了医学实践的可能性和条件，描绘了医学科学从对传统医学理论的绝对相信转向对实证观察的信赖，从封闭式的治疗转向开放式的治疗，从而导致在临床诊断中诸如征候、症状、言语、病人、病体、环境等一系列因素和其相互关系的重新组合，及医学认识的深刻改造这样一个完整的过程。