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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
1250081610
ISBN-13
9781250081612
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211814715
Product Key Features
Book Title
On the Government of the Living : Lectures at the Collège De France, 1979-1980
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Political, Essays
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Political Science, Philosophy
Book Series
Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège De France Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.1 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.7 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"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 "Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. . . . [His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture."-- The Nation, Foucault must be reckoned with.- The New York Times Book Review "Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are... [His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture."- The Nation
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
8
Dewey Decimal
194
Synopsis
In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of "regimes of truth." Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedience and submission, but "truth acts" in which individuals subject to relations of power are also required to be subjects in procedures of truth-telling? How and why are subjects required not just to tell the truth, but to tell the truth about themselves? These questions lead to a re-reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and, through an examination of the texts of Tertullian, Cassian, and others, to an analysis of the 'truth acts' in early Christian practices of baptism, penance, and spiritual direction in which believers are called upon to manifest the truth of themselves as subjects always danger of falling into sin. In the public expression of the subject's condition as a sinner, in the rituals of repentance and penance, and in the detailed verbalization of thoughts in the examination of conscience, we see the organization of a pastoral system focused upon confession.
LC Classification Number
B2430.F724O5 2016
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