Part of the definitive collection of Michel Foucaultamprsquos articles interviews and seminars this volume lays out the philosopheramprsquos influential thinking on the machinations of power in societyampldquoA rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces its work as well as itself at the same time. . . . Foucaultamprsquos work . . . leaves no reader untouched or unchanged.amprdquo ampmdashEdward Said The New York Times Book ReviewPower draws together Michel Foucaultamprsquos contributions to what he saw as the stillunderdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political cultureampmdashmedicine psychiatry the penal system sexualityampmdashilluminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic Discipline and Punish and the first volume of The History of Sexuality. Power includes previously unpublished lectures later writings highlighting Foucaultamprsquos revolutionary analysis of the politics of personal conduct and freedom interviews and letters that illuminate Foucaultamprsquos own political activism.