Using Foucault's methods Book

This book has a leading title that barely matches its contents. Rather than a rumination on Foucault, what you've got here is a series of essays more about other people than Foucault, with a minimum of connection back to Foucault's work; it is also not the primer in Foucault that it bills itself as, but rather requires a decent amount of prior knowledge of Foucault's work to even understand the authors' own attempts to understand and explain Foucault. This isn't to say that the book is entirely useless. It does provide some useful information on Latour and supplies a nice entryway into debates about modernism and postmodernism, and the final chapters end up being pretty engaging and even important. But that doesn't excuse the remainder of the book, which ends up being intensely misleading, and which also contains a pretty lame set of fictional situations that helps set up/explain the sections of the chapters but--again--not Foucault's actual work.