In a series of essays, conferences, and lectures over the period 1959–73, Michel Foucault directly engaged the writings of Nietzsche. This article demonstrates the five different modalities of Foucault's use of Nietzsche’s writings: namely, critical, epistemological, linguistic, alethurgic, and political. Each of these modalities is tied to a particular intellectual turning point in Foucault’s philosophical investigations and can be located chronologically in five important texts from that period.
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Defert, Daniel (2011) Situation du cours. In: Foucault, Michel, Leçons sur la Volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de France, 1970–1971, ed. Defert, Daniel. Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, pp. 257–279.
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Defert, Daniel (2015) Chronologie (1926–1967). In: Gros, Frédéric (ed.) Michel Foucault Œuvres, Volume I. Paris: Galimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, pp. xxxv–liv.
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Deleuze, Gilles (1988) Foucault, ed. Hand, Seán. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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Deleuze, Gilles (2006) Nietzsche and Philosophy, ed. Hardt, Michael. New York: Columbia University Press.
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Elden, Stuart (2017) Foucault: The Birth of Power, Cambridge: Polity.
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Ewald, François (1997) Foucault et l’actualité. In: Au risque de Foucault. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou.
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Foucault, Michel (1966) Les Mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines. Paris: Gallimard.
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Foucault, Michel (1969) L’archéologie du savoir, Paris: Gallimard.
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Foucault, Michel (1970) The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, ed. Laing, R.D. New York: Pantheon Books.
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Foucault, Michel (1975) Surveiller et punir, Paris: Gallimard.
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Foucault, Michel (1980) Prison talk. In: Gordon, Colin (ed.) Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972–77. New York: Pantheon.
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Foucault, Michel (1984) Nietzsche, genealogy, history. In: Foucault, Michel, The Foucault Reader, ed. Rabinow, Paul. New York: Pantheon Books, pp. 76–101.
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Foucault, Michel (1994a) Entretien avec Michel Foucault [interview conducted in 1978]. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome IV 1980–1988, text no. 281, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 41–95.
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Foucault, Michel (1994b) Folie, littérature, société [interview published in 1970]. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome II 1970–1975, text no. 82, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 104–128.
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Foucault, Michel (1994c) Nietzsche, Freud, Marx. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome I 1954–1969, text no. 46, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 564–579.
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Foucault, Michel (1994d) Nietzsche, la généalogie, l’histoire. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome II 1970–1975, text no. 84, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 136–156.
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Foucault, Michel (1994e) Le retour de la morale. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome IV 1980–1988, text no. 354, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 696–707.
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Foucault, Michel (1994f) Sur l’archéologie des sciences. Réponse au Cercle d’épistémologie. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome I 1954–1969, text no. 59, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 696–731.
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Foucault, Michel (1994g) Structuralisme et poststructuralisme [interview published in 1983]. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome IV 1980–1988, text no. 330, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 431–457.
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Foucault, Michel (1994h) La vérité et les forms juridiques. In: Foucault, Michel, Dits et Écrits 1954–1988, Tome II 1970–1975, text no. 139, ed. Defert, Daniel, Ewald, François and Lagrange, Jacques. Paris: Gallimard, pp. 538–646.
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Foucault, Michel (1996a) How much does it cost for reason to tell the truth? [interview first published in May and June 1983]. In: Lotringer, Sylvère (ed.) Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961–1984. New York: Semiotext(e), pp. 348–362.
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Foucault, Michel (1996b) The return of morality [interview conducted on 29 May 1984]. In: Lotringer, Sylvère (ed.) Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961–1984. New York: Semiotext(e), pp. 465–473.
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Foucault, Michel (1997) What is Enlightenment? In: Foucault, Michel, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954–1984, Volume 1, ed. Rabinow, Paul. New York: New Press, pp. 303–319.
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Foucault, Michel (1998) Nietzsche, Freud, Marx. In: Foucault, Michel, Aesthetics, Methods and Epistemology. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954–1984, Volume 2, ed. Faubion, James D. New York: New Press, pp. 269–278.
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Foucault, Michel (2000) Truth and juridical forms. In: Foucault, Michel, Power. The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954–1984, Volume 3, ed. Faubion, James D. New York: New Press, pp. 1–89.
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Foucault, Michel (2008) Introduction à l’Anthropologie. In: Kant, Immanuel, Anthropologie du point de vue pragmatique. Paris: Vrin, pp. 11–79.
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Foucault, Michel (2009) Le Courage de la vérité. Cours au Collège de France, 1984, ed. Gros, Frédéric. Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil.
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Foucault, Michel (2011) Leçon sur Nietzsche. In: Leçons sur la Volonté de savoir. Cours au Collège de France, 1970–1971, ed. Defert, Daniel. Paris: Gallimard/Seuil, pp. 195–213.
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Foucault, Michel (2013) La Société punitive. Cours au Collège de France, 1972–1973, ed. Harcourt, Bernard E. Paris: Gallimard/Seuil.
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Foucault, Michel (2014) Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice, ed. Brion, Fabienne and Harcourt, Bernard E. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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Foucault, Michel (2015) Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France, 1971–1972, ed. Harcourt, Bernard E. Paris: Gallimard/Seuil.
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