The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983 -- Michel Foucault, Paperback

This lecture, given by Michel Foucault at the College de France, launches an inquiry into the notion of parresia and continues his rereading of ancient philosophy. Through the study of this notion of truth-telling, of speaking out freely, Foucault re-examines Greek citizenship, showing how the courage of the truth forms the forgotten ethical basis of Athenian democracy. The figure of the philosopher king, the condemnation of writing, and Socrates' rejection of political involvement are some of the many topics of ancient philosophy revisited here.

Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/26/2011
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.60w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780312572921

About the Author

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 (editor) 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. He lives in Chicago.

Graham Burchell is the translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an Editor of The Foucault Effect.