Upon the publication of the 3000 pages of Foucault's Dits et črits, one Foucalt scholar commented that it still would not be possible to come to a full evaluation of Foucault's place in 20th century intellectual life without access to the 13 semester-length lecture courses offered by Foucault at the Collg̈e de France. Having studied these lectures, Paras (Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard U.) agrees wholeheartedly, observing that the lectures show the development of Foucault's thought at a time when he was producing little material in print, yet was formulating some of the foundations upon which he would rest Discipline and Punish and The Use of Pleasure and also shed light on the transformation that would place Foucault's later thought in opposition to his structuralist ideas of the "death of the subject" and his Archaeology of Knowledge. Annotation 2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
