Speaking the Truth about Oneself
Foucault, Michel / Lorenzini, Daniele / Fruchaud, Henri-Paul / Wyche, Daniel Louis 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...