Semiotext(e) and Foucault

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When Michel Foucault died in 1984, he requested there would be no posthumous publications. He even went as far to destroy his own work. Over the past twenty years, however, many of his lectures delivered at UC Berkley and the College de France have been published.

In the past year, Semiotext(e) announced the release of Foucault's doctoral dissertation. It includes a translation of Kant's "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View" and also his own work "Commentary." Many Foucault scholars have considered this to be of utmost importance for understanding the trajectory his critical project. It has previously been available at the Michel Foucault Library and the University of Paris X library.

Over the summer, the publication has been surrounded by controversy. An independent translator by the name of Dr. Arianna Bove, translated the above work and was solicited by an agent from Semiotext(e) a subsidiary company of MIT Press. According to Dr. Bove, Semiotex(e) encouraged her to make the translation more 'accessible', which to her meant 'disingenuous'. As is the case, Americans cannot get enough of French intellectuals. In this case, however, the distortion of this text would be a waste. Foucault's writing on Kant is one of the least explored and underdeveloped areas of his work.