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Speaking the Truth about Oneself

Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
By Michel Foucault
Series: The Chicago Foucault Project
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Speaking the Truth about Oneself by Michel Foucault delves into the intricate relationship between self-identity and the act of speaking candidly about oneself. The book examines how power, truth, and subjectivity interconnect, questioning traditional philosophies regarding self-understanding. It offers a profound exploration of the way people define themselves through discourse, considering both historical and cultural contexts.
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You might enjoy this thoughtful work if you're intrigued by the intersections of philosophy and psychology, particularly concerning the concepts of self-truth and introspection. Michel Foucault offers a deep dive into the exploration of how we come to understand and articulate truths about ourselves, making it compelling for those interested in self-analysis and the historical evolution of self-identity.

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Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with the care and cultivation of the self, a theme that becomes central to the second, third, and fourth volumes of his History of Sexuality. Foucault had always been interested in the question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and shape subjects, and in the last phase of his life, he became especially interested not only in how subjects are formed by these forces but in how they ethically constitute themselves. In this lecture series and accompanying seminar, Foucault focuses on antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman empire, and concluding with Christian monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Foucault traces the development of a new kind of verbal practice—“speaking the truth about oneself”—in which the subject increasingly comes to be defined by its inner thoughts and desires. He deemed this new form of “hermeneutical” subjectivity important not just for historical reasons, but also due to its enduring significance in modern society.

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This book is pivotal in developing Michel Foucault's ideas about technologies of the self and the concept of parrēsia, contrasting Greco-Roman antiquity with early Christianity. The annotations and recoveries of Foucault's Toronto lectures and seminars offer fresh insights into his thoughts during his final years, exploring the interplay between self-examination, truth-telling, and social relations. Edited from surviving materials, this volume enriches our understanding of Foucault’s exploration of subjectivity, the self, and the social acts embedded in the care of oneself.

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ISBN: 9780226826455

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 June 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 4 line drawings

Contributors:

  • Edited by Daniele Lorenzini
  • Edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud
  • Translated by Daniel Louis Wyche

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 367g

Pages: 304

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Michel Foucault Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: The Chicago Foucault Project

About the Author

Michel Foucault (1926–84) 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. Henri-Paul Fruchaud is an editor of Michel Foucault’s posthumous works. Daniele Lorenzini is assistant professor of philosophy and deputy director of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Daniel Louis Wyche is visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Albion College.
 

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