On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de

On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 8)

In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of â€œregimes of truth.â€ Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedience and submission, but â€œtruth actsâ€ in which individuals subject to relations of power are also required to be subjects in procedures of truth-telling? How and why are subjects required not just to tell the truth, but to tell the truth about themselves? These questions lead to a re-reading of Sophoclesâ€™ Oedipus the King and, through an examination of the texts of Tertullian, Cassian, and others, to an analysis of the â€˜truth actsâ€™ in early Christian practices of baptism, penance, and spiritual direction in which believers are called upon to manifest the truth of themselves as subjects always danger of falling into sin. In the public expression of the subjectâ€™s condition as a sinner, in the rituals of repentance and penance, and in the detailed verbalization of thoughts in the examination of conscience, we see the organization of a pastoral system focused upon confession.
Country USA
Brand Picador
Manufacturer Picador
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-03-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781250081612

Country	USA
Brand	Picador
Manufacturer	Picador
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-03-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781250081612

On the Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 8)

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