Foucault's Exam

　　This is an introductory guide to Foucault's theoretical world, written by Professor Geoffroy, a representative French scholar of the middle generation who studies Foucault. The book comprehensively examines the development of Foucault's thought, focusing on the three core axes of "knowledge," "power," and "the subject," concisely and accurately conveying the shifts and evolution of Foucault's thought from early to late periods.

As Professor Geoffroy states:

　　Foucault never stopped telling history: the history of excluded madness, the history of welcoming death, the history of epistemes, the history of prisons and wars, the history of confession and the subject, and the history of pleasure, the body, and desire.

　　He used historical narratives to fulfill the mission of a modern philosopher: to expose hidden power relations; to provoke resistance; to allow often suppressed voices to express themselves; to produce genuine knowledge that could counter mainstream governance; to promote the invention of new subjectivities; to question our freedom and the possibilities of our actions; to highlight the historicity of our systems of knowledge, power, and subjectivation; to show that we are never destined, and that we must change our lives.