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Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment,
and the care of the self. Â On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault
gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he
redefines his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel
Kant’s 1784 text, “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault
strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral
attitude consisting in the “art of not being governed
in this particular way,” one that performs the
function of destabilizing power relations and creating the space
for a new formation of the self within the “politics of truth.”
 This volume presents the first critical edition of this
crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about
the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at
the University of California, Berkeley in April 1983. There, for
the first time, Foucault establishes a direct connection between
his reflections on Enlightenment and his analyses of Greco-Roman
antiquity. However, far from suggesting a return to the ancient
culture of the self, Foucault invites his audience to build a
“new ethics” that bypasses the traditional references to
religion, law, and science.
Chapters are written by scholars form across a range of the
humanities and social schiences, giving a broad, interdisciplinary
perspective on the impact of Foucault's work. Updated and revised
introduction and bibliography to explicitly address an anglophone
readership.
Chapters are written by scholars form across a range of the
humanities and social schiences, giving a broad, interdisciplinary
perspective on the impact of Foucault's work. Updated and revised
introduction and bibliography to explicitly address an anglophone
readership.
A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth.
Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden
society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that
such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s
project. Foucault did not question truth itself but what Lorenzini
calls “the force of truth,” or how some truth claims are given
the power to govern our conduct while others are not. This
interest, Lorenzini shows, drove Foucault to articulate a new
ethics and politics of truth-telling precisely in order to evade
the threat of relativism. The Force of Truth explores this
neglected dimension of Foucault’s project by putting his writings
on regimes of truth and parrhesia in conversation with early
analytic philosophy and by drawing out the “possibilizing”
elements of Foucault’s genealogies that remain vital for
practicing critique today.
A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth.
Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden
society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that
such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the philosopher’s
project. Foucault did not question truth itself but what Lorenzini
calls “the force of truth,” or how some truth claims are given
the power to govern our conduct while others are not. This
interest, Lorenzini shows, drove Foucault to articulate a new
ethics and politics of truth-telling precisely in order to evade
the threat of relativism. The Force of Truth explores this
neglected dimension of Foucault’s project by putting his writings
on regimes of truth and parrhesia in conversation with early
analytic philosophy and by drawing out the “possibilizing”
elements of Foucault’s genealogies that remain vital for
practicing critique today.
Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault
gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In
these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a
genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with the care and
cultivation of the self, a theme that becomes central to the
second, third, and fourth volumes of his History of Sexuality.
Throughout his career, Foucault had always been interested in the
question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and
shape subjects, and in the last phase of his life, he became
especially interested not only in how subjects are formed by these
forces, but in how they ethically constitute themselves. In this
lecture series and accompanying seminar, Foucault focuses on
antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman Empire,
and concluding with Christian monasticism in the fourth and fifth
centuries AD. Foucault traces the development of a new kind of
verbal practice-"speaking the truth about oneself"-in which the
subject increasingly comes to be defined by its inner thoughts and
desires. He deemed this new form of "hermeneutical" subjectivity
important not just for historical reasons but also due to its
enduring significance in modern society. Is another form of the
self possible today?
The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now
available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and
Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre
Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual
exercises-transformative acts of intellect, imagination, or will.
Goethe sought both an intense experience of the present moment as
well as a kind of cosmic consciousness, both of which are rooted in
ancient philosophical practices. These practices shaped Goethe's
audacious contrast to the traditional maxim memento mori (Don't
forget that you will die) with the aim of transforming our ordinary
consciousness. Ultimately, Hadot reveals how Goethe cultivated a
deep love for life that brings to the forefront a new maxim: Don't
forget to live.
Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces
the historical formation and contemporary significance of the
hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French
philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria
University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his
project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is
concerned with the care and cultivation of the self, a theme that
becomes central to the second, third, and fourth volumes of his
History of Sexuality. Foucault had always been interested in the
question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and
shape subjects, and in the last phase of his life, he became
especially interested not only in how subjects are formed by these
forces but in how they ethically constitute themselves. In this
lecture series and accompanying seminar, Foucault focuses on
antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman empire,
and concluding with Christian monasticism in the fourth and fifth
centuries AD. Foucault traces the development of a new kind of
verbal practice—“speaking the truth about oneself”—in which
the subject increasingly comes to be defined by its inner thoughts
and desires. He deemed this new form of “hermeneutical”
subjectivity important not just for historical reasons, but also
due to its enduring significance in modern society.
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Madness, Language, Literature (Hardcover)
Michel Foucault; Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini, Judith Revel; Translated by Robert Bononno
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Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and
structuralism. Â Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between
madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel
Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are less explicit in
his later, more well-known writings. Collected here, these
previously unpublished texts reveal a Foucault who undertakes an
analysis of language and experience detached from their historical
constraints. Three issues predominate: the experience of madness
across societies;Â madness and language in Artaud, Roussel,
and Baroque theater; and structuralist literary
criticism. Not only do these texts pursue concepts unique to
this period such as the “extra-linguistic,” but they also
reveal a far more complex relationship between structuralism and
Foucault than has typically been acknowledged.
Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it
relates to both being a "subject of" and being "subject to"
political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and
political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by
exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through
which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars
of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly
translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in
a serious reconsideration of the notion of "autonomy" beyond the
liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In
the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion
of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault's reflections on
it and interrogate the current theoretical and political
implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the
Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and
power.
Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it
relates to both being a "subject of" and being "subject to"
political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and
political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by
exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through
which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars
of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly
translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in
a serious reconsideration of the notion of "autonomy" beyond the
liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In
the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion
of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault's reflections on
it and interrogate the current theoretical and political
implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the
Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and
power.
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