| Year |
Original French |
English Translation |
| 1954 |
Maladie mentale et personnalité re-edited as Maladie mentale et psychologie(1995) |
Mental Illness and Psychology |
| 1961 |
Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique - Folie et déraison |
Madness and Civilization - this is a greatly abridged version |
| 1963 |
Naissance de la clinique - une archéologie du regard médical |
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception |
| 1963 |
Raymond Roussel |
Death and the Labyrinth: the World of Raymond Roussel |
| 1966 |
Les mots et les choses - une archéologie des sciences humaines |
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences |
| 1966 |
La pensée du dehors |
'Thought from the Outside'; trans. Foucault/Blanchot, Zone Books |
| 1969 |
L'archéologie du savoir |
Archaeology of Knowledge) (first three chapters available here) |
| 1971 |
L'ordre du discours |
'The Discourse in Language'; trans. appears as an appendix to the Archaeology of Knowledge |
| 1973 |
Ceci n'est pas une pipe |
This Is Not a Pipe |
| 1975 |
Surveiller et punir |
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison |
| 1976-84 |
Histoire de la sexualité
- Vol I: La Volonté de savoir (1976)
- Vol II: L'Usage des plaisirs (1984)
- Vol III: Le Souci de soi (1984)
|
The History of Sexuality
- Vol I: The Will to Knowledge
- Vol II: The Use of Pleasure
- Vol III: The Care of the Self
|
| Year |
Original French |
English Translation |
| 1942 |
La Structure du comportement (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1942) |
The Structure of Behavior trans. by Alden Fisher (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963; London: Methuen, 1965). |
| 1945 |
Phénoménologie de la perception (Paris: Gallimard, 1945) |
Phenomenology of Perception trans. by Colin Smith (New York: Humanities Press, 1962) and (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962) translation revised by Forrest Williams, 1981; reprinted, 2002) |
| 1947 |
Humanisme et terreur, essai sur le problème communiste (Paris: Gallimard, 1947) |
Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem trans. by John O'Neill (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969) |
| 1948 |
Sens et non-sens (Paris: Nagel, 1948, 1966) |
Sense and Non-Sense trans. by Herbert Dreyfus and Patricia Allen Dreyfus (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964). |
| 1951 |
Les Relations avec autrui chez l’enfant (Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1951, 1975) |
'The Child’s Relations with Others' trans. by William Cobb in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 96-155. |
| 1953 |
Éloge de la Philosophie, Lecon inaugurale faite au Collége de France, Le jeudi 15 janvier 1953 (Paris: Gallimard, 1953) |
In Praise of Philosophy trans. by John Wild and James Edie (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1963) |
| 1955 |
Les Aventures de la dialectique (Paris: Gallimard, 1955) |
Adventures of the Dialectic trans. by Joseph Bien, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974) |
| 1958 |
Les Sciences de l’homme et la phénoménologie (Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire, 1958, 1975) |
'Phenomenology and the Sciences of Man' trans. by John Wild in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 43-95. |
| 1960 |
Éloge de la Philosophie et autres essais (Paris: Gallimard, 1960) |
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| 1960 |
Signes (Paris: Gallimard, 1960) |
Signs trans. by Richard McCleary, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1964). |
| 1964 |
L’Œil et l’esprit (Paris: Gallimard, 1964) |
'Eye and Mind' trans. by Carleton Dallery in The Primacy of Perception (1964), 159-190. Revised translation by Michael Smith in The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader (1993), 121-149. |
| 1964 |
Le Visible et l’invisible, suivi de notes de travail Edited by Claude Lefort (Paris: Gallimard, 1964) |
The Visible and the Invisible, Followed by Working Notes trans. by Alphonso Lingis, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968). |
| 1968 |
Résumés de cours, Collège de France 1952-1960 (Paris: Gallimard, 1968) |
Themes from the Lectures at the Collège de France, 1952-1960 trans. by John O’Neill, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970). |
| 1969 |
La Prose du monde (Paris: Gallimard, 1969) |
The Prose of the World trans. by John O’Neill (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973; London: Heinemann, 1974 |