title: Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature
author:  Michel Foucault 
description: <DIV><P>Michel Foucault (1926&ndash;1984) was a French historian and philosopher associated with the structuralist and poststructuralist movements, whose work has been widely influential throughout the humanities and social sciences. Some of his most notable titles are <I>Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish,</I> and <I>The History of Sexuality.</I><BR /><BR /> Robert Bononno has been a translator from French for more than twenty years. His recent nonfiction translations include <I>Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment</I>, by Henri Lefebvre (Minnesota, 2014), and <I>Speech Begins after Death</I>, by Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy (Minnesota, 2013).</P></DIV><BR />
zlib_text: ESSENTIAL 
  WORKS 
  OF 
  F O U C A U L T ,  
  19 5 4 -19 8 4 
  P A U L  R A B I N O W ,  
  SERIES 
  EDITOR 
  Ethics 
  edited by Paul Rabinow 
  Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology 
  edited by James D. Faubion 
  
  MICHEL 
  FOUCAULT 
  AESTHETICS, 
  METHOD, 
  AND 
  EPISTEMOLOGY 
  Edited by 
  JAM E S  D .  F AU B I O N  
  Translated by 
  ROBERT HURLEY AND OTHERS 
  ESSE NTIAL 
  WO R KS OF 
  FOUCAULT 
  1954-1984 
  VOLUME 
  TWO 
  THE 
  NEW 
  PRESS 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  
  © Editions GaIIimard 1994 Compilation, introduction and new 
  translations © 1008 by The New Press All rights reserved. 
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written 
  permission from the publisher. 
  The editors are grateful for permission to repint the following 
  copyrighted material. 
  English translations of "The Order of Things," "Sade: 
  Sargeant of Sex," and "Nineteenth Century Imagination" re­
  printed by permission of Autonomedia. 
  English translations of "What Is an Author?," "The Father's 
  'No,' " "A Preface to Transgression," "Language to 