First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley.

Paul Rabinow is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Part I The Illusion of Autonomous Discourse; Chapter 1 Practices and Discourse in Foucault's Early Writings; Chapter 2 The Archaeology of the Human Sciences; Chapter 3 Towards a Theory of Discursive Practice; Chapter 4 The Methodological Failure of Archaeology; Part II The Genealogy of the Modern Individual: The Interpretive Analytics of Power, Truth, and the Body; Chapter 5 Interpretive Analytics; Chapter 6 From the Repressive Hypothesis to Bio-Power; Chapter 7 The Genealogy of the Modern Individual as Object; Chapter 8 The Genealogy of the Modern Individual as Subject; Chapter 9 Power and Truth; conclusion Conclusion; afterword Afterword, Michel Foucault;