Courage of Truth

Author:   Michel Foucault ,  Graham Burchell ,  Frédéric Gros ,  François Ewald
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Volume:   11
ISBN:  

9781250009104


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 May 2012
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Our Price $63.36 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Courage of Truth


Add your own review!

Overview

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered in a series of lectures from 1970 to 1984 at the Coll�ge de France. Here, Foucault continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of truth-telling in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction. His death, on June 25th, 1984, tempts us to detect the philosophical testament in these lectures, especially in view of the prominence they give to the themes of life and death.

Full Product Details

Author:   Michel Foucault ,  Graham Burchell ,  Frédéric Gros ,  François Ewald
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Volume:   11
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 20.90cm
Weight:   0.313kg
ISBN:  

9781250009104


ISBN 10:   1250009103
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   08 May 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

Table of Contents

Reviews

[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture. --The New York Review of Books <p> Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. --The Nation <p> These lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault's later work--the relationship between power and knowledge. -- Library Journal <p> Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday. -- Bookforum


[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture. <i>The New York Review of Books</i></p> Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are. <i>The Nation</i></p> These lectures offer important insights into the evolution of the primary focus of Foucault's later work--the relationship between power and knowledge. <i>Library Journal</i></p> Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday. <i>Bookforum</i></p>


Author Information

Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. He died in 1984. Arnold I. Davidson is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is coeditor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. Graham Burchell is a Translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an editor of The Foucault Effect.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

ls

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List