Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France

Davidson, A. I. (Ed)

The Complete Collège de France Lectures given by one of the Most Influential Thinkers of the Last Century Michel Foucault remains among the towering intellectual figures of the modern age. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison and medicine are classics; his example continues to challenge and inspire. From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous Collège de France. These lectures were seminal events. Attended by thousands, they created benchmarks for contemporary critical inquiry. These lectures are now being made available in English for the first time in this series from Palgrave Macmillan.

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The Punitive Society Book

The Punitive Society

Davidson, A. I. (Ed), Foucault, M. (2015)

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and …

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On The Government of the Living Book

On The Government of the Living

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. I. (Ed) (2014)

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the …

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Lectures on the Will to Know Book

Lectures on the Will to Know

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. (Ed) (2013)

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing …

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The Courage of Truth Book

The Courage of Truth

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. (Ed) (2011)

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the …

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The Courage of Truth Book

The Courage of Truth

Foucault, M. (2011)

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 …

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The Government of Self and Others Book

The Government of Self and Others

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. I., Burchell, G. (2010)

An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parr?sia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the …

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Security, Territory, Population Book

Security, Territory, Population

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. I. (Ed) (2009)

This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on …

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The Birth of Biopolitics Book

The Birth of Biopolitics

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. I., Burchell, G. (2008)

Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of …

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Psychiatric Power Book

Psychiatric Power

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. (Ed) (2006)

In this addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how …

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Psychiatric Power Book

Psychiatric Power

Foucault, M., Davidson, A. (Ed) (2006)

In this new addition to the Collège de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how …

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The Hermeneutics of the Subject Book

The Hermeneutics of the Subject

NA, N. (2005)

The Hermeneutics of the Subject is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, one of the world's most prestigious institutions. …

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