Book Launch: »Michel Foucault. Eine Biographie. Erweiterte Neuausgabe«

Through his work, which can be read as a revolt against the violence of norms and normality, Michel Foucault became one of the most important thinkers of our time. Didier Eribon is one of the most intimate scholars of Foucault, with whom he shared an intense, though all too brief, friendship. His biography of Foucault, first published in 1989, became a classic, for the first time connecting Foucault’s theoretical work with the events of his life. The new, fully revised edition has been expanded to include numerous aspects and explores in detail, among other things, Foucault’s relationships with Jacques Derrida, Pierre Bourdieu, and Simone de Beauvoir.

The result is also a compelling panorama of French intellectual life in the second half of the 20th century. In conversation with Catherine Newmark, Eribon traces his portrait of Foucault as a thinker whose practice and philosophy remain profoundly relevant long after his death and offer a diagnosis of our present.