"Listening to the voices rising from the archives, grasping the distant echoes of confrontations with power, exhuming the tenuous grain of tiny existences-this is what Michel Foucault chose to do. Does the philosophers gesture conflict with the historical understanding of archival material? This look back at an exciting debate asks: is it possible to build together a concern for anonymous lives, a literary passion for documentary fragments, and the desire to make a history of the discourses and practices of power?" -Judith Revel, UniversitÉ Paris Nanterre
"The book should be of interest to Foucault scholars, political scientists, historians of eighteenth century France, as well as general readers."-Foucault Studies
