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Beschreibung
In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège 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.
In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège 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.
Über den Autor
Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Zusammenfassung
An examination of Foucault's readings of antiquity from the perspective of both the development of his thought and the texts themselves
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Government of the Living: Acts of Truth from Oedipus to the Primitive Church
Chapter 2: Subjectivity and Truth: From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Philosophic Life
Chapter 3: Hermeneutics of the Subject: Spirituality, Parrhesia, and Truth
Chapter 4: The Government of the Self and Others: Truth Telling and the Real of Philosophy in
Plato's Seventh Letter and Beyond
Chapter 5: The Courage of Truth: Philosophical Life in the Face of Death

Works Cited
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9781474278669
ISBN-10: 1474278663
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Allen Miller, Paul
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 240 x 161 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Paul Allen Miller
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2021
Gewicht: 0,52 kg
Artikel-ID: 127552614

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