Speaking the truth about oneself : lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 / Michel Foucault ; edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud & Daniele Lorenzini ; English edition established by Daniel Louis Wyche.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxvii, 272 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Machine generated contents note: Lecture III Fourth Meeting. Lecture II [Second English Version] -- Lecture II [Recorded Version] -- Lecture III [First English Version] -- Lecture III [Second English Version] -- Lecture IV -- Lecture V -- THE SEMINAR, JUNE 1982 -- First Meeting -- Second Meeting -- Third Meeting -- Fourth Meeting.
Summary:
"Speaking the Truth about Oneself is composed of lectures that acclaimed French philosopher Michel Foucault delivered in 1982 at the University of Toronto. As is characteristic of his later work, he is concerned here with the care and cultivation of the self, which becomes the central theme of the second and third volumes of his famous History of Sexuality, published in French in 1984, the month of his death, and which are explored here in a striking and typically illuminating fashion. Throughout his career, Foucault had always been interested in the question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and constitute subjects. But in the last phase of his life, he became especially interested not only in how subjects are constituted by outside forces but in how they constitute themselves. In this lecture series and accompanying seminar, we find Foucault focused on antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman dynasties, and concluding with fourth- and fifth-century Christian monasticism. Foucault's claim is that, in these periods, we see the development of a new kind of act-"speaking the truth" (about oneself)-as the locus of a new form of subjectivity, which he deemed important not just for historical reasons but also as something modernity could harness anew or adapt to its own purposes"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The Chicago Foucault Project Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Works. Selections (University of Chicago. Press). English.
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