First Published in 1984. This book was born out of a disagreement among friends. Paul Rabinow, attending a seminar given in 1979 by Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle which concerned, among other things, Michel Foucault, objected to the characterization of Foucault as a typical " structuralist." This challenge stirred a discussion that led to the proposal of a joint article which soon became a medium-length book.

Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School 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;