A comprehensive guide to Foucault, from his early work on madness to his history of sexuality.

Preface; Biographical chronology; Introduction: Michel Foucault: a user's manual Gary Gutting; 1. Foucault's mapping of history Thomas Flynn; 2. Foucault and the history of madness Gary Gutting; 3. The death of man, or exhaustion of the Cogito? Georges Canguilhem; 4. Power/knowledge Joseph Rouse; 5. Ethics as ascetics: Foucault, the history of ethics, and ancient thought Arnold Davidson; 6. Michel Foucault's ethical imagination James Bernauer and Michael Mahon; 7. The analytic of finitude and the history of subjectivity Beatrice Han-Pile; 8. Foucault's encounter with Heidegger and Nietzsche Hans Sluga; 9. Foucault and Habermas David Ingram; 10. Foucault's relation to phenomenology Todd May; 11. Against interiority: Foucault's struggle with psychoanalysis Joel Whitebrook; 12. Foucault's Modernism Gerald Bruns; 13. Queering Foucault and the subject of feminism Jana Sawicki.