Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of his friend and relaunches the debate about his ideas and legacy. ‘Foucault is not who you think he is’, writes Veyne; he stood neither on the left nor on the right and was frequently disowned by both. He was not so much a structuralist as a sceptic, an empiricist disciple of Montaigne, who never ceased in his work to reflect on 'truth games', on singular, constructed truths that belonged to their own time.

A unique testimony by a scholar who knew Foucault well, this book succeeds brilliantly in grasping the core of his thought and in stripping away the confusions and misunderstandings that have so often characterized the interpretation of Foucault and his work.

保羅·韋納(Paul Veyne, 1930—)，巴黎高師畢業，法蘭西公學院榮譽教授，法國當代最齣色的希臘—羅馬史研究專傢之一。主要著作有《古希臘人是否相信他們的神話》、《古羅馬的性與權力》、《我們如何書寫曆史》等，並主編《私人生活史》第一捲《從羅馬到拜占庭》。

趙文，於北京大學獲得文學博士學位，現供職於陝西師範大學文學院，從事西方批評理論、文學批評思想史方麵的研究工作，同時進行學術文獻的翻譯及相關研究。代錶性譯作有路易·阿爾都塞《馬基雅維利和我們》(收入《哲學與政治：阿爾都塞讀本》)及吉奧喬·阿甘本《無目的的手段》、唐娜·哈拉維《靈長類視覺》、艾迪安·巴利巴爾《斯賓諾莎與政治》等。