Passions of Michel Foucault

Intellectual biography - so you can designate the genre of this book. The formation and development of the worldview of the outstanding French thinker Michel Foucault is represented by James Miller in close interlacing with the circumstances of his life, where everything turns out to be interrelated and nothing - by chance. Difficult relationships with relatives and friends, hallucinogens, revolutionary work, burning interest in pain and death, fundamental immoralism ... as well as a place at the top of the academic Olympus, huge circulation for scientific publications, popularity from journalists and young people, human rights activities - everything was refracted in Fouco theoretical work, and that, in turn, formed the style of his life