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Zusatztext This is an important new work by a major scholar of Foucault and the Classics. The act of reading The History of Sexuality within the context of Foucault’s final years of teaching is convincing, poignant, and tremendously enriching. Informationen zum Autor Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, USA, and Distinguished Guest Professor of English at Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea. He is the author of Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Klappentext In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants , his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in relation to truth. On the other, the texts on which he will concentrate will no longer be those of the early modern period. Rather, he begins with one by Dio Cassius on the emperor Septimius Severus and then proceeds to spend the next two sessions offering a reading of Oedipus Tyrannus . He will concentrate on works from antiquity for the rest of his life. This book will offer the first detailed account of these lectures, examining both the development of their philosophical argument and the ancient texts on which that argument is based. This is the period during which Foucault also began work on Volumes 2 and 3 of the History of Sexuality . Yet, while there are clear overlaps between the work he was presenting in his course and the last books he published before his death, nonetheless the seminars are anything but rough drafts for the published work. Instead they offer a sustained encounter with the texts of the classical and early Christian era while seeking to trace a genealogy of the western subject as a speaker of truth. Vorwort This book traces the problematic nature of truth and power as discussed in Foucault’s late seminars (1980–84), which focus primarily on philosophical and literary texts from antiquity. Zusammenfassung In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants , his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself in relation to truth. On the other, the texts on which he will concentrate will no longer be those of the early modern period. Rather, he begins with one by Dio Cassius on the emperor Septimius Severus and then proceeds to spend the next two sessions offering a reading of Oedipus Tyrannus . He will concentrate on works from antiquity for the rest of his life. This book will offer the first detailed account of these lectures, examining both the development of their philosophical argument and the ancient texts on which that argument is based. This is the period during which Foucault also began work on Volumes 2 and 3 of the History of Sexuality . Yet, while there are clear overlaps between the work he was presenting in his course and the last books he published before his death, nonetheless the seminars are anything but rough drafts for the published work. Instead they offer a sustained encounter with the texts of the classical and early Christian era while seeking to trace a genealogy of the western subject as a speaker of truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Government of the Living: Acts of Truth from Oedipus to the Primitive ChurchChapter 2: Subjectivity and Truth: From the Interpretation of Dreams to the Philosophic LifeChapter 3: Hermeneutics of the Subject: Spirituality, Parrh esia , and Truth Chapter 4: The Government of the Self and Others: Truth Telling and the Real of Philosophy in Plato’s Seventh...
