Diskurs! Macht! Sexualität! Didier Eribon über Philosophie und Leben Michel Foucaults

Michel Foucault, one of France's most important philosophers, died in 1984. His influence on politics and culture remains unbroken to this day. In 1989, the writer, sociologist and philosopher Didier Eribon ("Return to Reims") published a biography of the thinker that is more than just a retelling of Foucault's life: It is a tribute to a great life's work and an insurgent against the violence of norms and normality. Eribon's biography of Foucault has already become a classic in its own right. It is now being published in a revised and expanded edition, which is devoted in detail to his intellectual relationships with Derrida, Bourdieu and de Beauvoir and for the first time sheds light on topics such as sexuality and drug use. The result is a captivating portrait: "The chronicle of an intellectual adventure that is second to none" (FAZ). Mod.: Olga Mannheimer