When published in 1983 first reading Foucault, Miguel Morey intended to carry out a thorough reading of the work of Michel Foucault, a bit like "cash-for-tools' Foucault, to make way for readers to his thought:" Work as professor of philosophy who are forced to remain in the shadows, trying only to restore the voice and the discourse of the philosopher explaining rib. " Even features like Morey in the preface to this new edition-own editor he predicted a "discreet projection", convinced that Foucault would be a "fad".
However, a few months after the events changed unpredictably. First, Foucault broke a silence of years, publishing volumes II and III of his History of Sexuality. Soon, the June 25, 1984, died in Paris Salpetriere clinic. In parallel, Foucault reading was exhausted and opportunistic publisher against all logic, Miguel Morey refused to reedit, because both new books as the thousands of pages of unpublished documents Foucault, not to mention the recordings of his classes at the Collège de France, turned impossible task to remain faithful to the original intent, which was basically to present a thorough and detailed overview of the work of Foucault. Thus, Reading Foucault became inadvertently in a kind of prototype of the "book bomb" with which dreamed Foucault ("I must add that my dream, my personal dream is not exactly build bombs, because I do not like to kill the people. But books were building bomb, ie books that were useful precisely at the moment when someone writes or reads them. And then they disappeared "), breaking briefly in the scenario to disappear just as quickly.
Now that the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Foucault, reissued in its original version Reading Foucault, accompanied by a second volume, titled Writings about Foucault, where Morey pays off the outstanding debt to the rest of the work Foucault not It covered in this volume. As the reader will note, in the manner of classical texts, the original look of Morey on Foucault has only become more accurate over time, as your intuition and anticipation of great importance to have his thinking have been widely corroborated Throughout the three decades that separate this issue from the original.