Yazar: M. Foucault

In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society’s division of ‘mad’ and ‘sane’ and how medicine and law influe …

This book derives from Foucault’s lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on ‘bio-power’, he studies th …

An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing …

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year’s lectures in …

Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post- …

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal …

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require tho …