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CONFESSIONS OF THE FLESH

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Modern Classics, 416pp, £25

For most of the last four decades or so, the obscure philosopher Michel Foucault has been a name seldom mentioned outside academic social studies departments. Now, though, he’s all the rage – blamed by culture-warriors for a generation of young lefties no longer believing, apparently, that there’s any such thing as truth. Good timing, then, for the unfinished fourth volume of his giant project on to have been assembled from his notes by his executors. Foucault