Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981: 12 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France) - Softcover

Foucault, Michel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 125019508X ISBN 13: 9781250195081

Publisher: Picador USA, 2019

Synopsis

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

Praise for Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France Series
"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

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

In 1981, Michel Foucault delivered a course of lectures that marked a decisive reorientation in his thought and of the project The History of Sexuality outlined in 1976. It was in these lectures that arts of living became the focal point around which he developed a new way of thinking about subjectivity. It was also the moment when Foucault problematized a conception of ethics understood as the patient elaboration of a relationship of self to self.

In these lectures, which clearly foreshadow The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self, Foucault examines the Greek subordination of gender differences to the primacy of an opposition between active and passive, as well as the development by Imperial stoicism of a model of the conjugal bond, which advocates unwavering fidelity and shared feelings and which leads to the disqualification of homosexuality. Once more, his lectures demonstrate that Foucault "is quite central to our sense of where we are" (The Nation).

About this title

About the Authors

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

His books include The Government of Self and Others, The Courage of Truth, The Birth of Biopolitics, and The Punitive Society.

Graham Burchell (Translator) is the translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.

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Arnold I. Davidson (Editor) is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and Professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. He lives in Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador USA
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 125019508X
• ISBN 13: 9781250195081
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Gros Frédéric, Ewald François, Fontana Alessandro, Davidson Arnold I