Michel Foucault ; edited by Michel Senellart ; general editors, François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana ; English series editor, Arnold I. Davidson ; translated by Graham Burchell.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[Basingstoke]
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xviii, 365 pages)
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes indexes.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Foreword: Francois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana --;Translator's Note --;Abbreviations --;1. 9 January 1980 --;2. 16 January 1980 --;3. 23 January 1980 --;4. 30 January 1980 --;5. 6 February 1980 --;6. 13 February 1980 --;7. 20 February 1980 --;8. 27 February 1980 --;9. 5 March 1980 --;10. 12 March 1980 --;11. 19 March 1980 --;12. 16 March 1980 --;Course Summary --;Course Context --;Index of Greek Terms --;Index of Notions --;Index of Names.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political science -- Philosophy.
Truth -- Political aspects.
Truth -- Religious aspects.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
B2430
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F723
Book number
M534
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Michel Foucault ; edited by Michel Senellart ; general editors, François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana ; English series editor, Arnold I. Davidson ; translated by Graham Burchell.