What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self by Foucault, Michel

What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226383446)

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What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self by Foucault, Michel

What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self

$35.00
What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self by Foucault, Michel

What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self.

On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined 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 like this," 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This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of California, Berkeley, in April 1983.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 the 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.

Author: Michel Foucault
ISBN-10: 022638344X
ISBN-13: 9780226383446
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/2024
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Michel Foucault
By Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Coll鑒e de France. Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault's posthumous works. Daniele Lorenzini is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Arnold I. Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. Clare O'Farrell is a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is the founding editor of Foucault Studies.

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