Foucault’s unreleased writings appear on his centenary
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Michel Foucault’s previously unpublished works appeared to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.
The Seuil publishing house released “La Place de l’homme dans la pensée occidentale moderne”, which consists of notes from a course Foucault taught at the University of Tunis, Tunisia between 1966 and 1967. Flammarion published “La Croisade des enfants”, a manuscript Foucault intended as the third volume of his History of Sexuality series.
Foucault originally planned to continue his History of Sexuality with an examination of an 18th- to 19th-century campaign against masturbation, but he later decided to research ancient Greece and Rome instead. The release of “La Place de l’homme…” followed a debate sparked by Foucault’s 1966 essay Les Mots et les Choses, where he suggested that the concept of “man” was a recent invention nearing its end.
Foucault allied himself with anthropologists like Claude Lévi-Strauss and thinkers such as Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, who represented the structuralist movement.
