The Foucault ReaderMichel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. The Reader contains selections from each area

it argues that capitalist realism colors all areas of contemporary experience

whether by choice or by force

Claud’s private life

In this new translation by Michael Hulse-the first in English by a poet-Zarathustra is revealed in all his bold and ironic splendor as a man who prizes self-worth above all else as a moral code to live by

her father

America’s best and most significant writing

Huddled in the dark

and—most precious of all—financial freedom

which engage the interstices between poetics

perhaps America's greatest living writer

When Monument Eternal was originally published in 1977

Joãozinho comes up with an idea as good as the smell of a fresh carrot