Foucault's seminars on antiquity : learning to speak the truth / Paul Allen Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Paul Allen, author.

Series:

Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing

Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature--History and criticism.

Classical literature.

Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984--Contributions in philosophy.

Foucault, Michel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Summary:

"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 hand, 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Government of the Living: Truth and Power from Oedipus to Christian Penitence

3. Subjectivity and Truth: The Desiring Subject Learns to Speak

4. The Hermeneutics of the Subject: The Care of the Self, Philosophy as a Spiritual Practice

5. The Government of the Self and Others: The Philosopher as Speaker of Truth to Power

6. The Courage of the Truth: The Scandal of the Socratic!

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474278676

1474278671

OCLC:

1238133510