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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

Door Luther H. Martin

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#355676-ZD9
Titel
Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault
Auteur
Martin, Luther H.
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Amherst, MA : University of Massachusets
Jaar van uitgave
1988
ISBN10
0870235931
ISBN13
9780870235931
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Contains essays by Foucault-scholars and Foucault himself. It concentrates on Foucault's later works, where there is a shift of focus from the power/knowledge axis to the axis of ethics. This collection of should be of interest to anyone who are interested in Foucault's work on ethics and subjectivity.
Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self...,about the role of reading and writing in constituting the self... and so on." The book Foucault envisioned was based on a faculty seminar on "Technologies of the Self", originally presented at the University of Vermont in the fall of 1982. This volume is a partial record of that semin
... (Lees verder)ar.
In many ways, Foucault's project on the self was the logical conclusion to his historical inquiry over twenty-five years into insanity, deviancy, criminality, and sexuality. Because Foucault died before he completed the revisions of his seminar presentations, this volume includes a careful transcription instead... as a prolegomenon to that unfinished task.
Pagina's
166
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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