Foucault's last decade /
Last decade
Stuart Elden.
- xiv, 247 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pervert, hysteric, child -- The war of races and population -- The will to know and the power of confession -- From infrastructures to governmentality -- Return to confession -- The pleasures of antiquity -- The two historical plans of the history of sexuality -- Speaking truth to power.
On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead.