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Language English Pages 491 Originally published 1993 Page count 491 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 1993 ISBN 978-0671695507 Publisher Simon & Schuster Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Passion of Michel Foucault is a biography of the French philosopher Michel Foucault authored by the American philosopher James Miller. It was first published in the United States by Simon & Schuster in 1993.
Within the book, Miller made the claim that Foucault's experiences in the gay sadomasochism community during the time he taught at Berkeley directly influenced his political and philosophical works. Miller's ideas have been rebuked by certain Foucault scholars as being either simply misdirected, a sordid reading of his life and works, or as a politically motivated, intentional misreading.
Press reviews
Writing for The Boston Globe, George Scialabba described The Passion of Michel Foucault as an "intensely interesting" work which provides an "astoundingly vivid though non-prurient description of (mainly homosexual) sadomasochism". Historian of science Roger Smith writes that Miller turns Foucault's life "into a drama for our times".