Lectures on the Will to Know

by M. Foucault, Graham Burchell (Translator), A. Davidson (Editor)

Overview

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403986573
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/04/2014
Series:	Michel Foucault: Lectures at the College de France Series
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	293
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Translator's Note 1. 9 December 1970 2. 16 December 1970 3. 6 January 1971 4. 13 January 1971 5. 27 January 1971 6. 3 February 1971 7. 10 February 1971 8. 17 February 1971 9. 24 February 1971 10. 3 March 1971 11. 10 March 1971 12. 17 March 1971 13. Lecture On Nietzsche Course summary Oedipal Knowledge Course context Index of notions Index of names

Editorial Reviews

"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are." - The Nation

"Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday." - Bookforum

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