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Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) by Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Frédéric Gros, Frédéric Gros, Arnold I. Davidson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 (Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France) about?

“The working hypothesis is this: it is true that sexuality as experience is obviously not independent of codes and systems of prohibitions, but it needs to be recalled straightaway that these codes are astonishingly stable, continuous, and slow to change. It needs to be recalled also that the way in which they are observed or transgressed also seems to be very stable and very repetitive. On the other hand, the point of historical mobility, what no doubt change most often, what are most fragile, are modalities of experience.” - Michel Foucault In 1981 Foucault delivered a course of lectures which marked a decisive reorientation in his thought and of the project of a History of Sexuality outlined in 1976. It was in these lectures that arts of living became the focal point around which he developed a new way of thinking about subjectivity. It was also the moment when Foucault problematized a conception of ethics understood as the patient elaboration of a relationship of self to self. It was the study of the sexual experience of the Ancients that made these new conceptual developments possible. Within this framework, Foucault examined medical writings, tracts on marriage, the ph

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Author
Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell, François Ewald, Alessandro Fontana, Frédéric Gros, Frédéric Gros, Arnold I. Davidson
Publisher
Les Éditions du Seuil/Gallimard, coll. "Hautes études"
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781349739028
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Social Science, Philosophy, Humanities

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