"Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists."--The New York Times Book Review"Foucault has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions. . . . He gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture."--The New York Review of Books"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. . . . [His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture."--The Nation