Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970--1971, and Oedipal Knowledge (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France) - Softcover

FOUCAULT, MICHEL

 
9781250050106: Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970--1971, and Oedipal Knowledge (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France)

Synopsis

Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores the different forms of truth-telling, and their relation to power and the law. The publication of Lectures on the Will to Know marks a milestone in Foucault's reception, and it will no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before.

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MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984) acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and '80s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is a professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Pisa. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. GRAHAM BURCHELL has written essays on Michel Foucault and is an editor of The Foucault Effect.

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