Lectures on the Will to Know

M. Foucault, A. Davidson, A. Davidson , Graham Burchell

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English

Palgrave
10 September 2014

History: specific events & topics; Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory

Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France

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 procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

By: M. Foucault
Edited by: A. Davidson, A. Davidson
Translated by: Graham Burchell
Imprint: Palgrave
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9781403986573
ISBN 10: 1403986576
Series: Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 10 September 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. Arnold I. Davidson, Series Editor, is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, USA, and Professor of the Philosophy of Cultures at the Universita Ca'Foscari, Venice. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. Graham Burchell is a translator. As well as translating Foucault's lectures at the College de France he has written essays on Foucault's work and was an editor of and contributor to the influential volume The Foucault Effect. Studies in Governmentality.

Reviews for Lectures on the Will to Know

"""Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are."" - The Nation ""Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday."" - Bookforum"