Stuart Jeffries

How Foucault was shielded from scandal by French reverence for intellectuals

The French philosopher king continued to write extensively on chastity while allegations about his paedophilia were covered up

Michel Foucault in 1979. [Getty Images]
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  • Confessions of the Flesh: The History of Sexuality, Volume 4

    Michel Foucault, edited by Frédéric Gros, translated by Robert Hurley

    Penguin, pp. 416, £25

  • The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

    Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora

    Verso, pp. 256, £17

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