Few if any philosophers have had the impact on contemporary thought that Michel Foucault has. His complete uncollected writings, under the title Dits et ecrits, were published in French by Gallimard in 1994, and The New Press's three-volume Essential Works of Foucault series, edited by Paul Rabinow, brings the most important of these works -- courses, articles, and interviews, much of it translated into English for the first time -- to American readers. Power draws together Foucault's contributions to what he saw as the still-underdeveloped practice of political analysis. It covers the domains Foucault helped to make part of the core agenda of Western political culture -- medicine, psychiatry, the penal system, sexuality -- illuminating and expanding on the themes of The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish, and the first volume of The History of Sexuality. Book jacket.