The Courage of Truth by Michel Foucault, ISBN-13: 978-1403986696
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- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 2011th edition (April 21 2011)
- Language: English
- 380 pages
- ISBN-10: 140398669X
- ISBN-13: 978-1403986696
The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he 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.
‘In this, the final year of his lectures at the College de France, Michel Foucault reaches more deeply into the foundations of Western thought than ever. Emphasizing parrhesia, the ancient practice of speaking truth to power, he shows how it is a practice of the care of the self, and in so doing, demonstrates how the dictum ‘know oneself’ is only a part of our philosophical inheritance. This is an astonishing conclusion to the life’s work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.’ – Thomas Dumm, Amherst College, USA
‘In his powerful final course of lectures, expertly edited by Frédéric Gros and sympathetically translated by Graham Burchell, Foucault provides an explicitly political focus to his work on parrhesia. He offers readings of a range of texts, of which those of the Apology and the Cynics are especially insightful. It is impossible to read these lectures without an eye to the links between his work and his life, but Foucault’s focus remains on the material at hand and his long-running interest in the interrelations of truth, power and the subject.’ – Stuart Elden, Durham University, UK
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. His many books in English include The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish, The History of Sexuality, and “Discourse and Truth” and “Parrēsia,” the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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