Contents

Foreword vii
Introduction: Foucault and the Politics of Experience
Lawrence D. Kitzman ix
Sel-Portraits
1. The Minimalist Self 3
2. Critical Theory/Intellectual Histor 17
3. An Aesthetics of Existence 47
Theories of the Political:
Histor, Power, and the Law
4. Politics and Reason 57
5. The Art of Telling the Truth 86
6. On Power 96
7. Power and Sex 110
8. The Dangerous Individual 125
9. Practicing Criticism 152
The Politics of Contemporary Lie
10. Social Security 159
11. Confinement, Psychiatry, Prison 178
12. Iran: The Spirit of a World Without Spirit 211
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The Ethics of Sexuality
13. The Battle for Chastity 227
14. The Return of Morality 242
15. The Concern for Truth 255
The Politics of Sexuality
16. Sexual Morality and the Law 271
17. Sexual Choice, Sexual Act:
Foucault and Homosexuality 286
Notes on the Power of Culture
18. The Functions of Literature 307
19. Contemporary Music and Its Public 314
20. The Masked Philosopher 323