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Foucault's Seminars on Antiquity - Learning to Speak the Truth (Hardcover)
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Foucault's Seminars on Antiquity - Learning to Speak the Truth (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing
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In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the
one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the College de
France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will
be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in
relation to truth. On the other, the texts on which he will
concentrate will no longer be those of the early modern period.
Rather, he begins with one by Dio Cassius on the emperor Septimius
Severus and then proceeds to spend the next two sessions offering a
reading of Oedipus Tyrannus. He will concentrate on works from
antiquity for the rest of his life. This book will offer the first
detailed account of these lectures, examining both the development
of their philosophical argument and the ancient texts on which that
argument is based. This is the period during which Foucault also
began work on Volumes 2 and 3 of the History of Sexuality. Yet,
while there are clear overlaps between the work he was presenting
in his course and the last books he published before his death,
nonetheless the seminars are anything but rough drafts for the
published work. Instead they offer a sustained encounter with the
texts of the classical and early Christian era while seeking to
trace a genealogy of the western subject as a speaker of truth.
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