Despite having come across Foucault's name and titles of his major works again and again, my exposure to Foucault's work remains superficial and erratic. What little exposure I had of his work is mainly under the context of literary criticism: I have done cursory readings of some pages from Madness and Civilization, and Death and Labyrinth for English papers in college. I have remained largely ignorant of other concerns in his works in areas of politics and government. Even though I was aware that he was a historian and studied psychology at some point, just by looking at the titles of his books, "The History of Sexuality", "Madness and Civilization", "The Birth of the Clinic", etc., I was curious as to what exactly from these works distinguishes them from those of a medical historian and makes Foucault a philosopher and a thinker.