Michel Foucault: ethique et verite

1980-1984

Edited by Daniele Lorenzini Edited by Ariane Revel Edited by Arianna Sforzini Contributions by Philippe Chevallier Contributions by Laura Cremonesi Contributions by Arnold I. Davidson Contributions by Piergiorgio Donatelli Contributions by Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze Contributions by Frederic Gros Contributions by Orazio Irrera Contributions by Carlo Natali Contributions by Luca Paltrinieri Contributions by Judith Revel Contributions by Michel Senellart

Book cover: Michel Foucault: ethique et verite

Extent: 260, 260 pages

Publisher: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Problèmes & Controverses

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(December 2013)

ISBN: 9782711625208

5.28 x 8.43 inches

Price: $29.00

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English summary: This ambitious volume examines the Foucaults later writings from the 1980s. Foucaults contemporaries were baffled by his new perspective from this period in which he explored the modalities of a relationship with the self and the truth, seeming to blur the image of a Foucault concerned with describing and denouncing the forms of contemporary power. This study brings to light the theoretical and practical aspects of this period, in order to a reinvention of our own actuality. French description: Les recherches menees par Foucault au cours des annees quatre-vingt demeurent, a beaucoup d’egards, indecidables. Doit-on parler, a leur propos, d’un retour aux questions classiques du sujet, de la morale, de la liberte? D’un abandon de la mise en perspective politique? D’un dandysme esthetisant? Les contemporains furent profondement deconcertes par des analyses qui, en se concentrant sur les modalites du rapport a soi et a la verite dans l’Antiquite ou le christianisme primitif, paraissaient brouiller l’image d’un Foucault attache a decrire et denoncer les formes du pouvoir moderne. Le present ouvrage se propose de relever le defi pose par ce dernier moment, aussi fecond que provocateur, de la pensee foucaldienne, d’en degager les enjeux theoriques et pratiques, et de se donner les moyens, a partir d’eux, de reinventer notre actualite .

  • Edited by Daniele Lorenzini
  • Edited by Ariane Revel
  • Edited by Arianna Sforzini
  • Contributions by Philippe Chevallier
  • Contributions by Laura Cremonesi
  • Contributions by Arnold I. Davidson
  • Contributions by Piergiorgio Donatelli
  • Contributions by Marie-Odile Goulet-Caze
  • Contributions by Frederic Gros
  • Contributions by Orazio Irrera
  • Contributions by Carlo Natali
  • Contributions by Luca Paltrinieri
  • Contributions by Judith Revel
  • Contributions by Michel Senellart