On the Government of the Living - Lectures At the College De France, 1979-1980

A series of lectures on the spiritual, ethical and philosophical aspects of the exercise of power as government asks why individuals are required to both submit to laws and reveal the truth about themselves, analyzing examples in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and early Christian practices.

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• Authors: M Foucault, M. Foucault, Michel Foucault
• Assisted by: Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), Arnold I. Davidson (Editor), Arnol I Davidson (Editor), Arnold I Davidson (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor), Michel Senellart (Editor), Graham Burchell (Translation), Kenneth A. Loparo (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2014
• EAN: 9781403986627
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8662-7
• No. of pages: 383
• Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France; Michel Foucault: Lectures at t; Michel Foucault Lectures at the College de France; Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France; Michel Foucault, Lectures at t
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; B, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Social Philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Modern Philosophy