This book presents Michel Foucault's unpublished manuscript on the Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger for the first time in English, offering crucial insight into his intellectual development.
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, was one of the most important figures in twentieth-century thought.Elisabetta Basso is an assistant professor at the University of Pavia and a member of the Centre d'archives en philosophie, histoire et édition des sciences at the École normale supérieure of Paris.François Ewald is a political philosopher and historian who oversaw the publication of Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France.Marie Satya McDonough is a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program and the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University.Bernard E. Harcourt is a chaired professor at Columbia University and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and has edited a range of works by Foucault in French and English.
