On The Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980

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

Overview

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349540990
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	Michel Foucault: Lectures at the College de France Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	365
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 Abbreviations 1. 9 January 1980 2. 16 January 1980 3. 23 January 1980 4. 30 January 1980 5. 6 February 1980 6. 13 February 1980 7. 20 February 1980 8. 27 February 1980 9. 5 March 1980 10. 12 March 1980 11. 19 March 1980 12. 16 March 1980 Course Summary Course Context Index of Greek Terms Index of Notions Index of Names

Editorial Reviews

"[Foucault] must be reckoned with." The New York Times Book Review

"Ideas spark off nearly every page of this book, as Foucault manages to reinvigorate questions of power and violence that might have seemed well-worn. The words may have been spoken in 1976, but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday." Bookforum

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

"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual coded and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture." The New York Review of Books

"These lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault's later work the relationship

between power and knowledge." - Library Journal

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