The passions of Michel Foucault: What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope for?

Abstract

Recent biographical work on Michel Foucault has, quite rightly, emphasized the Nietzschean influence in his work. James Miller supplements this intellectual influence by taking seriously Fourcault's late notion of life as ‘a work of art’. He is therefore caught in the trap of seeing Foucault's death as the culminating point of his life and work. David Macey argues that Foucault's death as the culminating point of his life and work. David Macey argues that Foucault's life was fragmented and compartmentalized. The search for intellectual ‘doubles’ in Foucault's life and work must in the future lead to Gilles Deleuze.