The Lives of Michel Foucault

By David Macey

When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become the most influential French philosopher since the end of World War II. His powerful studies of the creation of modern m...

Lacan in Contexts

By David Macey

In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan’s work. He shows that key elem...

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By David Macey

The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden.When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become...

Frantz Fanon

By David Macey

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French A...

Frantz Fanon

By David Macey

Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French A...

Michel Foucault Reaktion Books Critical Lives

By David Macey

The Lives of Michel Foucault

By David Macey

The classic biography of the radical French philosopher with a new afterword by acclaimed Foucault scholar Stuart Elden.When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had become...