<p><strong>'</strong><em>The Birth of the Clinic</em><strong> repeatedly allows us to glimpse the face, the personal and distinctive features of a philosopher-historian whose declared aim is nevertheless to get rid of the subject and subjectivity, to disappear in his own discourse and to leave the way open for a formulation of the anonymous rules which govern human knowledge and behavior.'</strong> - <em>New York Review of Books</em><br /><br /><strong>'Foucault has re-launched philosophy in France single-handed.'</strong> - <em>The Times Literary Supplement</em><br /><br /><strong>'Michel Foucault is a very brilliant writer, he has a remarkable angle of vision, a highly disciplined and coherent one, that informs his work to such a high degree as to make the work sui generis original.'</strong> - <em>Edward W. Said</em></p>