This volume gives us the transcription of the first of Michel
Foucault's annual courses at the CollA]ge de France. Its
publication marks a milestone in Foucault's reception and it will
no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before.
In these lectures the reader will find the deep unity of Foucault's
project from "Discipline and Punish" (1975), dominated by the
themes of power and the norm, to "The Use of Pleasure" and "The
Care of the Self" (1984), devoted to the ethics of
subjectivity.
"Lectures on the Will to Know" remind us that Michel Foucault's
work only ever had one object: truth. "Discipline and Punish"
completed an investigation of the role of juridical forms in the
formation of truth-telling, the preparatory groundwork for which is
found here in these lectures. Truth arises in conflicts, in rival
claims for which the rituals of judicial judgment provide the
possibility of deciding between who is right and who is
wrong.
At the heart of ancient Greece there is a succession of different
and opposing juridical forms and ways of dividing true and false
into which the disputes between sophists and philosophers are soon
inserted. In "Oedipus the King," Sophocles stages the peculiar
force of forms of truth-telling: they establish power just as they
depose it. Against Freud, who will make "Oedipus" the drama of a
shameful sexual desire, Michel Foucault shows that the tragedy
articulates the relations between truth, power, and law. The
history of truth is that of the tragedy.
Beyond the irenicism of Aristotle, who situated the will to truth
in the desire for knowledge, Michel Foucault deepens the tragic
vision of truth inaugurated by Nietzsche, who Foucault, in a secret
dialogue with Deleuze, rescues from Heidegger's reading.
After this course, who will dare speak of a skeptical
Foucault?
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