{"title":"Books by Michel Foucault","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichel Foucault stands as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, whose penetrating analyses of power, knowledge, and social institutions reshaped modern philosophy and cultural theory. His works, spanning history, politics, and psychology, challenge readers to uncover the hidden structures that govern everyday life and the ways in which truth is constructed and maintained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the confines of the asylum to the mechanisms of surveillance, Foucault's scholarship invites a radical re-examination of authority and identity. His writing remains essential for students and readers seeking to understand how discourses of power shape both individual experience and the broader fabric of society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre you this author? Drop us a line to update your details \u003cb\u003ehello@bookcurl.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wrongdoing-truthtelling-9780226708904","title":"WrongDoing TruthTelling","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning set of lectures given by Foucault that focus on the history of 'avowing' one's acts and the truth of who one is. Foucault seeks to understand at what point it became important not only to confess to a crime, but to avow one's act in public. For Foucault, avowal of one's criminality before an established authority becomes a way of reestablishing that authority, and resisting avowal becomes tantamount to civil disobedience. The political implications of his analysis become especially clear in the interviews included here. This is wonderful and arresting read.\"--Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley \"Reconstructed through the patient labours of Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, . . . [the lectures] are now available in a scrupulous English translation.\"--Times Literary Supplement \"Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt are to be congratulated for their invaluable work.\"--Berfrois \"The Louvain lectures show us an aspect of Foucault's work that is often neglected in an attempt to focus on his commitment to historicizing: that for histories, even genealogical histories, to be constructed, one must not only trace the changes themselves but also that which is changed and therefore remains, in its changes, continuous.\"--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews \"These lectures are unique and valuable in that, consistent with the direction of Foucault's work at the time, they expand his explorations of the various modalities of truth and subjectivity into the criminal justice context. Additionally, Foucault's genealogical work in these lectures situates these specific criminal justice practices within a more far-reaching history than that with which we are familiar. . . . A valuable contribution to both Foucaultian and criminological scholarship.\"-- (05\/22\/2015) \"Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling is one of Foucault's most stirring inquiries into what he has named 'the hermeneutics of oneself.' These lectures stage the concept of avowal in performances as varied as Greek tragedy, criminal justice, and confessional practices; and they provide us with some of Foucault's most illuminating observations on the intimate and agonistic relations between sites of enunciation, orders of truth, and investments of power. The subject of avowal is never free of the ethical exigency and the discursive contingency of 'chang[ing] itself, transform[ing] itself, displac[ing] itself, and becom[ing] to some extent other than itself, ' and Foucault's genius lies in providing us with critical and genealogical reflections on the worldly practices of avowal. Bernard Harcourt and Fabienne Brion's essential afterword provides both a frame and a ballast to the book. This is a considerable addition to the English archive of the work of Michel Foucault.\"--Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University \"The publication of Foucault's Louvain lectures, Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling, beautifully and rigorously established and commented upon by Fabienne Brion and Bernard Harcourt, is an important event in the contemporary blossoming of Foucault studies. In no way is it redundant with the lectures at the College de France, whose series is now practically complete. With this amazingly rich inquiry, focusing on the mythical, religious, and judiciary dimensions of 'avowal, ' we are offered a unique possibility to understand how Foucault's genealogy articulated the order of discourse and the power of institutions.\"--Etienne Balibar, Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, author of Politics and the Other Scene\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEditor’s Preface\u003cbr\u003e Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e INAUGURAL LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e April 2, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Dr. Leuret, avowal, and the therapeutic operation. — The supposed effects of truth-telling on oneself and of knowledge of the self. — Characteristics of avowal. — The spread of avowal within Western Christian societies: individuals bound to their truth and obligated in their relationships to others through the truth told. — A historical-political problem: how the individual binds himself to his truth and to the power that exerts itself upon him. — A historical-philosophical problem: how individuals are bound by forms of veridiction. — A counterpoint to positivism: a critical philosophy of \u003ci\u003everidictions\u003c\/i\u003e. — The problem of “who is being judged” in penal institutions. — Penal practices and technologies of government. — Governing through truth.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FIRST LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e April 22, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A political and institutional ethnology of truthful speech. — Truth-telling and speaking justice. — Scope of the study. — \u003ci\u003eVeridiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ejurisdiction\u003c\/i\u003e in Homer’s \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e. — The competition between Menelaus and Antilochus. — The object of Antilochus’s avowal. —Justice and \u003ci\u003eagon\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eagon\u003c\/i\u003e and truth. —The chariot race and the challenge of the oath, two liturgies of truth, two games designed to represent justly the truth of their respective strengths. — A ritual of commemoration. — \u003ci\u003eVeridiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ejurisdiction\u003c\/i\u003e in Hesiod’s \u003ci\u003eWorks and Days\u003c\/i\u003e. — \u003ci\u003eDikazein\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ekrinein\u003c\/i\u003e. — The oath of the accusers and the co-jurors in \u003ci\u003edikazein\u003c\/i\u003e: a game of two parties, the criteria being the social status of the adversaries. — The oath of the judge in \u003ci\u003ekrinein\u003c\/i\u003e: a game of three parties, the criteria being \u003ci\u003edikaion\u003c\/i\u003e. — The social weight of adversaries and “the reality of things”: \u003ci\u003edikaion\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ealethes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SECOND LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e April 28, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The representation of law in Sophocles’s \u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex\u003c\/i\u003e. — A judicial paradigm. — Essential elements of the tragedy. — Two recognitions, three alethurgies. — Veridiction and prophecy. — Veridiction and tyranny. — Veridiction and witnessing avowal. — Grandeur of the parties, freedom to speak, and the effect of truth in the inquiry. — Recognition by the chorus, conditions for recognition by Oedipus. — From truth-telling to saying “I.” — A procedure that conforms to \u003ci\u003enomos\u003c\/i\u003e, a veridiction that repeats the word of the prophet and completes that of the man of \u003ci\u003etechne technes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THIRD LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e April 29, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hermeneutics of the text and hermeneutics of the self in early Christianity. — Veridiction of the self in pagan antiquity. — The Pythagorean examination of conscience: purification of self and mnemotechnics. — The Stoic examination of conscience: the government of the self and the remembering of codes. — The Stoic \u003ci\u003eexpositio animae\u003c\/i\u003e: medicine of passions and degrees of liberty. — Penance in early Christianity. — The problem of reintegration. — Penance as a status that manifests a particular state. — The meanings of \u003ci\u003eexomologesis\u003c\/i\u003e. — A life in the form of avowal, an avowal in the form of life. — A ritual of supplication. — Beyond the medical or judicial, the model of the martyr. — Veridiction of the self and mortification of the self. — From the public manifestation of the self as sinner to the verbalization of the self: temptation and illusion.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FOURTH LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e May 6, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Practice of veridiction in monastic institutions of the fourth and fifth centuries: the \u003ci\u003eApophthegmata patrum \u003c\/i\u003eand the writings of Cassian. — Monasticism: between the life of penance and philosophical existence. — Characteristics of the direction of conscience in ancient culture. — Characteristics of the direction of conscience in monasticism: an obedience that is continuous, formal, and self-referential; humility, patience, and submission; the inversion of the relationship to verbalization. — Characteristics of the examination of conscience in monasticism: from action to thought.\u003ci\u003e — \u003c\/i\u003eMobility of thought and illusion. — \u003ci\u003eDiscrimen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ediscretio\u003c\/i\u003e: avowal and the origin of thought. — Veridiction of the self, hermeneutics of thought, and the rights-bearing subject.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FIFTH LECTURE     \u003cbr\u003e May 13, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Characteristics of \u003ci\u003eexagoreusis \u003c\/i\u003ein the fourth and fifth centuries. — Renunciation of the self. — Truth of the text and truth of the self. — The separation and adjustment of the hermeneutics of the text and the hermeneutics of the self in Protestantism. — Illusion, evidence, and meaning (Descartes and Locke). — Illusion of the self about the self and the unconscious (Schopenhauer and Freud). — Juridification of avowal in the ecclesiastical tradition from the fourth to the seventh centuries. — Co-penetration of \u003ci\u003eexagoreusis \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eexomolog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003esis \u003c\/i\u003ein the first monastic and lay communities. — Characteristics and origins of fixed penance: the monastic model and the model of Germanic law. — Sacramentalization and institutionalization of obligatory confession in the thirteenth century. — Juridification of the relationship between man and God. — Forms and meanings of avowal in the \u003ci\u003econfessio oris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e SIXTH LECTURE\u003cbr\u003e May 20, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Juridification in ecclesiastical and political institutions. — From God as judge to a state of justice: sovereignty and truth. — Avowal, torture, and inquisitorial tests of truth. — Avowal, torture, and legal proofs. — Avowal, sovereign law, sovereign conscience, and punitive engagement. — Auto-veridiction, evidence, and penal dramaturgy. — Hetero-veridiction, examination, and legal psychiatry. — Relating the act to its author: the question of criminal subjectivity in the nineteenth century. — Monomania and the constitution of crime as psychiatric object. — Degeneration and the creation of the criminal as object for social defense. — From responsibility to dangerousness, from the rights-bearing subject to the criminal individual. — The question of criminal subjectivity in the twentieth century. — Hermeneutics of the subject and the meaning of crime for the criminal. — Accident, probability, and indices of criminal risk. — Veridiction of the subject and the breach in the contemporary penal system.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Appendixes\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Michel Foucault Interview with André Berten\u003cbr\u003e May 7, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Michel Foucault Interview with Christian Panier and Pierre Watté\u003cbr\u003e May 14, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Michel Foucault Interview with Jean François and John De Wit\u003cbr\u003e May 22, 1981\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Louvain Lectures in Context\u003cbr\u003e Fabienne Brion and Bernard E. Harcourt\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments to the French Edition\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments to the English Edition\u003cbr\u003e Index of Notions and Concepts\u003cbr\u003e Index of Proper Names","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732916580695,"sku":"9780226708904","price":22.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226708904.jpg?v=1719998937"},{"product_id":"madness-language-literature-9780226774831","title":"Madness Language Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lest these familiar Foucauldian themes leave readers feeling there is nothing new here, Judith Revel’s nuanced, judicious introduction highlights 'four differences' in apparent contrast to Foucault as he has been received.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“Reverberations from the forceful impact of Foucault’s thought were first felt by Anglophone readers in the mid-1960s almost entirely through his writings on madness and literature. This new volume gathers several previously unpublished or untranslated texts from this decade on these very themes. Readers will be delighted to revisit or perhaps even indulge for the very first time those ideas and analyses with which Foucault forever shook the future of philosophy.\" -- Colin Koopman, University of Oregon\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected in this book are as urgent today as they were fifty years ago: provocative, generative, and timely. Each is a bridge connecting Foucault’s histories of the modern subject to different fields of inquiry, from literature to structuralism to the philosophy of J. L. Austin. Anyone interested in literary theory, early modern history, or continental philosophy and its relation to the analytic tradition will find these essays by turns revelatory and inspiring.” -- Richard Neer, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Judith Revel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lectures and Writings on Madness, Language, and Literature\u003cbr\u003e 1. Madness and Civilization\u003cbr\u003e 2. Madness and Civilization (Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, April 1967)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Madness and Society\u003cbr\u003e 4. Literature and Madness (Madness in Baroque Theater and the Theater of Artaud)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Literature and Madness (Madness in the Work of Raymond Roussel)\u003cbr\u003e 6. Phenomenological Experience: Experience in Bataille\u003cbr\u003e 7. The New Methods of Literary Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 8. Literary Analysis\u003cbr\u003e 9. Structuralism and Literary Analysis (Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, February 4, 1967)\u003cbr\u003e 10. [The Extralinguistic and Literature]\u003cbr\u003e 11. Literary Analysis and Structuralism\u003cbr\u003e 12. Bouvard and Pécuchet: The Two Temptations\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Search for the Absolute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920807767,"sku":"9780226774831","price":26.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226774831.jpg?v=1719998955"},{"product_id":"speaking-the-truth-about-oneself-9780226826455","title":"Speaking the Truth about Oneself","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a crucial text in the development of Foucault’s ideas about technologies of the self and the question of \u003ci\u003eparrēsia\u003c\/i\u003e, especially for his contrast of Greco-Roman antiquity and early Christianity. Particularly notable is that as well as a partial record of his Toronto lectures, this volume also includes a rare record of how he conducted his seminars. Skillfully edited from surviving materials, this is a valuable addition to our understanding of Foucault’s final projects.“ -- Stuart Elden, University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003e“Lorenzini and Fruchaud’s stunning introduction and annotation of Foucault’s Toronto lectures and seminars offer something wholly unexpected: a new and unique portal onto Foucault’s understanding of what occupied him during his final years—not only a person’s capacity to speak the truth, but a new understanding of how the subject’s acquisition of truth is something much more, an assimilation that transforms the subject herself. The fact that this care of the self is a social act, not an individual one, appears center stage in Foucault’s analysis. This volume is a precious opening for those who have thought themselves already versed in Foucault’s work and for those newly seeking a way to think with him.” -- Ann Laura Stoler, The New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e“These newly recovered lectures and seminars constitute an important chapter in Foucault’s work on what he called ‘the history of subjectivity in the West.’ They show Foucault poring over the details of texts from classical antiquity so as to describe how the philosophical schools that flourished at the height of the Roman Empire produced distinctive practices of self-examination and self-cultivation. He thereby expands our sense of the possible relations among truth, speech, desire, and the self. The seminars in particular cast new light on Foucault’s late work on sexuality, \u003ci\u003eparrēsia\u003c\/i\u003e, and early Christianity.” -- David Halperin, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e“These lectures and seminars come at a critical juncture in Foucault’s work on the making of the subject: they bridge Foucault’s interrogation of models of self-care and self-knowledge with his final work on truth-telling. Sprawling across pedagogy, spiritual combat, friendship, and therapeutic practices, these social relationships differently mediate between inner experience and external context. Learning, unlearning, struggle, critique—all serve as different technologies used in forging the truth-telling and self-knowledge of individuals in their relation to rule. A brilliant volume that unusually highlights Foucault thinking aloud in the classroom.” -- Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSpeaking the Truth about Oneself\u003c\/i\u003e, Fruchaud and Lorenzini deliver a highly readable set of lectures Foucault delivered in English at Victoria University (Toronto) in 1982, just two years prior to his untimely passing, lectures that are pivotal in connecting the vertices of Foucault's triangle: the will to know, the obligation to confess, and care of the self. Drawing on unpublished notes, audio recordings, and student notes, which, in some cases, Foucault himself corrected, the editors have erected an important\u003cbr\u003e monument to Foucault's continuing relevance.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, translated by Daniel Louis Wyche\u003cbr\u003e Note on the Reconstruction of the Text\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations of Works by Michel Foucault \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture I The Technology of the Self\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture II [Second English Version]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture II [Recorded Version]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture III [First English Version]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture III [Second English Version]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lecture V\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Seminar, June 1982\u003cbr\u003e First Meeting                                                           \u003cbr\u003e Second Meeting\u003cbr\u003e Third Meeting\u003cbr\u003e Fourth Meeting\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                         \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732930703703,"sku":"9780226826455","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226826455.jpg?v=1719998996"},{"product_id":"power-9780241435083","title":"Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience? * The Times Higher Education *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733113811287,"sku":"9780241435083","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241435083.jpg?v=1719999448"},{"product_id":"society-must-be-defended-9780241435168","title":"Society Must Be Defended","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733113844055,"sku":"9780241435168","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241435168.jpg?v=1719999448"},{"product_id":"the-foucault-reader-9780241435144","title":"The Foucault Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Foucalt\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-84) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in post-war France. 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These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat comes to my mind when traversing these extraordinary lectures is a variant of the famous motto: 'same is another.' Foucault claimed that he was writing texts to depart from himself. And he succeeded. But in doing so he delved deeper and deeper into his own truth. And into ours. -- Étienne Balibar, author of \u003ci\u003eViolence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of Foucault’s early lectures on sexuality offers readers a chance to follow the ebbs and flows of theoretical thought as ideas take shape under very specific historical conditions. 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Particularly notable is that as well as a partial record of his Toronto lectures, this volume also includes a rare record of how he conducted his seminars. Skillfully edited from surviving materials, this is a valuable addition to our understanding of Foucault’s final projects.“ -- Stuart Elden, University of Warwick\u003cbr\u003e“Lorenzini and Fruchaud’s stunning introduction and annotation of Foucault’s Toronto lectures and seminars offer something wholly unexpected: a new and unique portal onto Foucault’s understanding of what occupied him during his final years—not only a person’s capacity to speak the truth, but a new understanding of how the subject’s acquisition of truth is something much more, an assimilation that transforms the subject herself. The fact that this care of the self is a social act, not an individual one, appears center stage in Foucault’s analysis. This volume is a precious opening for those who have thought themselves already versed in Foucault’s work and for those newly seeking a way to think with him.” -- Ann Laura Stoler, The New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e“These newly recovered lectures and seminars constitute an important chapter in Foucault’s work on what he called ‘the history of subjectivity in the West.’ They show Foucault poring over the details of texts from classical antiquity so as to describe how the philosophical schools that flourished at the height of the Roman Empire produced distinctive practices of self-examination and self-cultivation. He thereby expands our sense of the possible relations among truth, speech, desire, and the self. The seminars in particular cast new light on Foucault’s late work on sexuality, \u003ci\u003eparrēsia\u003c\/i\u003e, and early Christianity.” -- David Halperin, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e“These lectures and seminars come at a critical juncture in Foucault’s work on the making of the subject: they bridge Foucault’s interrogation of models of self-care and self-knowledge with his final work on truth-telling. Sprawling across pedagogy, spiritual combat, friendship, and therapeutic practices, these social relationships differently mediate between inner experience and external context. Learning, unlearning, struggle, critique—all serve as different technologies used in forging the truth-telling and self-knowledge of individuals in their relation to rule. A brilliant volume that unusually highlights Foucault thinking aloud in the classroom.” -- Nancy Luxon, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eSpeaking the Truth about Oneself\u003c\/i\u003e, Fruchaud and Lorenzini deliver a highly readable set of lectures Foucault delivered in English at Victoria University (Toronto) in 1982, just two years prior to his untimely passing, lectures that are pivotal in connecting the vertices of Foucault's triangle: the will to know, the obligation to confess, and care of the self. Drawing on unpublished notes, audio recordings, and student notes, which, in some cases, Foucault himself corrected, the editors have erected an important\u003cbr\u003e monument to Foucault's continuing relevance.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini, translated by Daniel Louis Wyche Note on the Reconstruction of the Text List of Abbreviations of Works by Michel Foucault   Lecture I The Technology of the Self  Lecture II [Second English Version]  Lecture II [Recorded Version]  Lecture III [First English Version]  Lecture III [Second English Version]  Lecture IV  Lecture V  The Seminar, June 1982 First Meeting                                                            Second Meeting Third Meeting Fourth Meeting                                                                                          Notes Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400070537559,"sku":"9780226616865","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"sexuality-9780231195072","title":"Sexuality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Foucault’s interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he taught two courses on the subject. These lectures offer crucial insight into the development of Foucault’s thought yet have remained unpublished until recently. This book presents Foucault’s lectures on sexuality for the first time in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat comes to my mind when traversing these extraordinary lectures is a variant of the famous motto: 'same is another.' Foucault claimed that he was writing texts to depart from himself. And he succeeded. But in doing so he delved deeper and deeper into his own truth. And into ours. -- Étienne Balibar, author of \u003ci\u003eViolence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume of Foucault’s early lectures on sexuality offers readers a chance to follow the ebbs and flows of theoretical thought as ideas take shape under very specific historical conditions. With a brilliant introduction by Bernard Harcourt guiding the way, the lectures gathered here provide deep insight into the braided structures of power, knowledge and desire that continue to regulate bodies. At the same time, this deep archive provides opportunities for linking to other moments of rebellion, opposition and, even, abolition. -- Jack Halberstam, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Things: The Disorder of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally published in English, these 1964 and 1969 early lectures of Foucault, given at a time when homosexuality was still considered a clinical pathology and a crime and when the notion of gender was not yet a leverage of political emancipation for feminist and trans movements, allow us to grasp the archeology of contemporary queer and trans critical languages. We discover a young Foucault thinking sexuality anew, using Sade, Bataille, Restif de la Bretonne, or Fourier, and fighting with Freud, Marx, Melanie Klein, Marcuse, or Wilhelm Reich in order to pierce an academic, political, and discursive field dominated by epistemic violence against sexual minorities. A necessary, controversial, and fascinating reading to understand not only Foucault’s critical project but also the way in which different discourses on desire, pleasure, and sexuality shape our present. -- Paul B. Preciado, author of \u003ci\u003eCountersexual Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese lectures offer a really important insight into Foucault’s work in the 1960s on the question of sexuality—a topic on which his more famous works come from the 1970s and 1980s. This volume shows how he proposed a study of scientific knowledge about sexuality from biology to psychology, with some explicit engagement with figures who are only discussed obliquely elsewhere. Graham Burchell is the most important translator of Foucault’s work into English, and Anglophone readers remain much in his debt. -- Stuart Elden, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Early Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume will be of interest to all scholars working on sexuality across many disciplines, particularly those whose study is informed by Foucauldian analyses of power, knowledge, and desire. * Modern Language Review *\u003cbr\u003eWill be invaluable to readers interested in any aspect of Foucault's intellectual development. Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Foreword, by Bernard E. Harcourt\u003cbr\u003eForeword to the French Edition, by François Ewald\u003cbr\u003eRules for Editing the Texts, by Claude-Olivier Doron\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Note, by Graham Burchell\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLecture 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003eLecture 2. The Scientific Knowledge of Sexuality\u003cbr\u003eLecture 3. Sexual Behavior\u003cbr\u003eLecture 4. The Perversions\u003cbr\u003eLecture 5. Infantile Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. The Discourse of Sexuality: Lectures at the University of Vincennes (1969)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLecture 1. The Discourse of Sexuality\u003cbr\u003eLecture 2. The Transformations of the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eAppendix to Lecture 2\u003cbr\u003eLecture 3. The Discourse of Sexuality (3)\u003cbr\u003eAppendix to Lecture 3\u003cbr\u003eLecture 4. Legal Forms of Marriage Up to the Civil Code\u003cbr\u003eLecture 5. Epistemologization of Sexuality\u003cbr\u003eLecture 6. The Biology of Sexuality\u003cbr\u003eLecture 7. Sexual Utopia\u003cbr\u003eAppendix to Lecture 7\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. Extract from Green Notebook no. 8, September 1969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCourse Context, by Claude-Olivier Doron\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            Sexuality: Course at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1964)\u003cbr\u003e            The Discourse of Sexuality: Course at the University of Vincennes (1969)\u003cbr\u003eDetailed Contents\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Notions\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Names","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400347754839,"sku":"9780231195072","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231195072.jpg?v=1730470454"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-sexuality-2-9780241385999","title":"The History of Sexuality 2","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault''s discussion'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  second volume of Michel Foucault''s pioneering analysis of the changing  nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in classical Greek  culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on  the healthiest season for sex, as well as exercise and diet) to the  role of women, \u003ci\u003eThe Use of Pleasure\u003c\/i\u003e is full of extraordinary  insights into the differences - and the continuities - between the  Ancient, Christian and Modern worlds, showing how sex became a moral  issue in the west.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Required reading for those who cling to  stereotyped ideas about our difference from the Greeks in terms of pagan  license versus Christian austerity'' \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity, and detail of Foucault's discussion ... subtle and penetrating * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e'A man of the same era and Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Jacques Derrida and Jean Baudrillard, he was, in his writings and his life, the most accessible of them all, as well as the most beguiling' -- Richard Gott * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eAlways provocative, needling, disconcerting * Washington Times *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400391434583,"sku":"9780241385999","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241385999.jpg?v=1730470577"},{"product_id":"the-history-of-sexuality-3-9780241386002","title":"The History of Sexuality 3","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self'' \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern  Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a  decisive break from the classical Greek version of sexual pleasure.  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