"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"

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ID20002878
AuthorsMichel Foucault (0000-0002-0993-5641), Henri-Paul Fruchaud, D Lorenzini (0000-0001-8794-9419), Arnold I Davidson, Clare O’farrell (0000-0003-0561-4856)
Year2024
Pages209
Publication date2024-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWhat Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7208/chicago/9780226383583.001.0001
OpenAlexW4391672826
Open LibraryOL53272909M
ISBN9780226383583
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Newly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self. On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefines his entire philosophical project in light of Immanuel Kant’s 1784 text, “What Is Enlightenment?” Foucault strikingly characterizes critique as the political and moral attitude consisting in the “art of not being governed in this particular way,” one that performs the function of destabilizing power relations and creating the space for a new formation of the self within the “politics of truth.” This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of California, Berkeley in April 1983. There, for the first time, Foucault establishes a direct connection between his reflections on Enlightenment and his analyses of Greco-Roman antiquity. However, far from suggesting a return to the ancient culture of the self, Foucault invites his audience to build a “new ethics” that bypasses the traditional references to religion, law, and science

Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Psychology · Philosophy

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