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Monographs
| Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Maladie mentale et personnalité
re-edited as Maladie mentale et psychologie (1962) |
Mental Illness and Psychology (1976)
reprinted as Madness: The Invention of an Idea. New York: Harper Perennial (2011) |
| 1961 | Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique – Folie et déraison | Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1965)
History of Madness (2006) |
| 1963 | Naissance de la clinique – une archéologie du regard médical | The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception |
| 1963 | Raymond Roussel | Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel |
| 1966 | Les mots et les choses – une archéologie des sciences humaines | The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences |
| 1969 | L’archéologie du savoir | Archaeology of Knowledge (2002) |
| 1971 | L’ordre du discours | “The Discourse on Language” (1972). |
| 1975 | Surveiller et punir | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison |
| 1976–1984 | Histoire de la sexualité
Vol I: La Volonté de savoir (1976) Vol II: L’Usage des plaisirs (1984) Vol III: Le Souci de soi (1984) Vol IV: Les aveux de la chair (2018) |
The History of Sexuality
Vol I: The Will to Knowledge Vol II: The Use of Pleasure Vol III: The Care of the Self Vol IV: The Confessions of the Flesh |
Collège de France Course Lectures
| Year Given | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1970–71 | La Volonté de Savoir (2011) | Lectures on the Will to Know (2013) |
| 1971–72 | Théories et Institutions Pénales (2015) | Penal Theories and Institutions (2019) |
| 1972–73 | La Société Punitive (2013) | The Punitive Society (2015) |
| 1973–74 | Le pouvoir psychiatrique (2003) | Psychiatric Power (2006) |
| 1974–75 | Les anormaux (1999) | Abnormal (2004) |
| 1975–76 | ″Il faut défendre la société″ (1997) | ″Society Must Be Defended″ (2003) |
| 1977–78 | Sécurité, territoire, population (2004) | Security, Territory, Population (2007) |
| 1978–79 | Naissance de la biopolitique (2004) | The Birth of Biopolitics (2008) |
| 1979–80 | Du gouvernement des vivants (2012) | On the Government of the Living (2014) |
| 1980–81 | Subjectivité et Vérité (2014) | Subjectivity and Truth (2017) |
| 1981–82 | L’Herméneutique du sujet (2001) | The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005) |
| 1982–83 | Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres (2008) | The Government of Self and Others (2010) |
| 1983–84 | Le courage de la vérité (2009) | The Courage of Truth (2011) |
Other Lectures
In a 1967 lecture, titled in English as either “Different Spaces” or “Of Other Spaces” (reprinted in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology, and in The Visual Culture Reader, ed. Nicholas Mirzoeff), Foucault coined a novel concept of the heterotopia.
Collaborative works
| Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère | I, Pierre Riviere, Having Slaughtered my Mother, my Sister and my Brother (1975) |
| 1978 | Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B. | Herculine Barbin (1980) |
| 1982 | Le Désordre des familles. Lettres de cachet with Arlette Farge | Disorderly Families: Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives (2017) |
Other books
| Year | Original French | English Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” | This is not a pipe (1991) |
| 1980 | Interview with Michel Foucault originally published in Italian, then in French in 1994 | Remarks on Marx (1991) |
| 2001 | Berkeley lecture series, never published in French | Fearless Speech (2001) |
| 2013 | Mal faire, dire vrai. Fonction de l’aveu en justice (2012) | Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (2013) |



