Lectures on the Will to Know

Michel Foucault, Arnold I I Davidson, Graham Burchell

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St Martin's Press
02 December 2014

Philosophy; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Lectures on the Will to Know reminds us that Michel Foucault's work only ever had one object: truth. Here, he builds on his earlier work, Discipline and Punish, to explore the relationship between tragedy, conflict, and truth-telling. He also explores the different forms of truth-telling, and their relation to power and the law. The publication of Lectures on the Will to Know marks a milestone in Foucault's reception, and it will no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before.

By: Michel Foucault
Edited by: Arnold I I Davidson
Translated by: Graham Burchell
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 283g
ISBN: 9781250050106
ISBN 10: 1250050103
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 December 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926-1984) acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and '80s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON is a professor at the University of Chicago and the University of Pisa. He is co-editor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie. GRAHAM BURCHELL has written essays on Michel Foucault and is an editor of The Foucault Effect.

Reviews for Lectures on the Will to Know

Foucault must be reckoned with. --The New York Times Book Review Foucault has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . He gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture. --The New York Review of Books Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are . . . [His work carries] out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture. --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