The essential works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984. Volume three, Power / edited by Paul Rabinow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Colin Gordon -- Truth and juridical forms -- The politics of health in the eighteenth century -- Preface to Anti-Oedipus -- Truth and power -- The birth of social medicine -- Lives of infamous men -- About the concept of the "dangerous individual" in nineteenth century leagal psychiatry -- Governmentality -- Questions of method -- Interview with Michel Foucault -- "Omnes et Singulatim": toward a critique of political reason -- The subject and power -- Space, knowledge and power. -- The risks of security -- What is called "punishing"? -- Interview with Actes -- The political technology of individuals -- Pompidou's two deaths -- Summoned to court -- Letter to certain leaders of the left -- The proper use of criminals -- Lemon and milk -- Open letter to Mehdi Bazargan -- For an ethic of discomfort -- Useless to revolt? -- So is it important to think? -- Against replacement penalties -- To punish is the most difficult thing there is -- The moral and social experience of the Poles can no longer be obliterated -- Confronting governments: human rights.

"The final volume in Michel Foucault's seminal Essential Works series, this collection of articles, interviews and lectures, many in English for the first time, brings together his most outspoken views on politics and power. These provocative writings show Foucault challenging and subverting the institutions of power inherent in society. Drawing on works from the later years of his life, when he became an increasingly important public voice, they address the issues that he helped make the core of Western political culture: law, prisons, medicine, government and sexuality, in particular showing his concerns with human rights, discriminating and exclusion. Articles and open letters published directly in response to the issues of the time call for reform in abortion, asylum and the death penalty, including a powerful attack on the guillotining of two prisoners in 1972. All the pieces here bring a new sense of Foucault's huge influence in the politics of personal freedom."--Publisher's website.

Translated from the French.