Ethics : subjectivity and truth / Michel Foucault ; edited by Paul Rabinow ; translated by Robert Hurley and others.

Author/creator Foucault, Michel
Other author Rabinow, Paul.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New Press ; New York : Distributed by W.W. Norton, ©1997.
Descriptionxlv, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984 ; v. 1
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Works. Selections. English. 1997 ; v. 1.
Contents Introduction: The History of Systems of Thought / Paul Rabinow -- pt. 1. The Courses. Candidacy Presentation: College de France, 1969. The Will to Knowledge. Penal Theories and Institutions. The Punitive Society. Psychiatric Power. The Abnormals. Society Must Be Defended. Security, Territory, and Population. The Birth of Biopolitics. On the Government of the Living. Subjectivity and Truth. The Hermeneutic of the Subject -- pt. 2. Ethics. Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations. An Interview by Stephen Riggins. Friendship as a Way of Life. Sexual Choice, Sexual Act. The Social Triumph of the Sexual Will. Sex, Power, and the Politics of Identity. Sexuality and Solitude. The Battle for Chastity. Preface to The History of Sexuality, Volume Two. Self Writing. Technologies of the Self. On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress. The Ethics of the Concern for Self as a Practice of Freedom. What is Enlightenment? The Masked Philosopher.
Review "Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. In 1994, ten years after his death, his French publisher, Gallimard, issued Dits et ecrits, the first complete collection of all Foucault's publications outside his monographs." "It is a great pleasure for The New Press to bring the most important work from Dits et ecrits - including much never before published in the United States - to English-speaking readers in a definitive three-volume series edited by Paul Rabinow." "This first volume contains the famous course summaries Foucault submitted to the College de France each year from 1970 and 1982. Never before available in English, these writings provide a lucid and accessible overview of Foucault's work in progress during this time, including his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry, "biopolitics," and the modern subject." "A second section contains interviews, along with Foucault's key writings on ethics, including some of the riskiest and most personal writing of Foucault's career. These pieces illustrate the attempt to elaborate new ways of life and modes of "care of the self" that concerned him during the last years of his life."--Jacket.
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General noteOriginally published: Dits et écrits, 1954-1984. Paris : Editions Gallimard, ©1994, in series: Bibliothèque des sciences humaines. With new compilation, introd., and translation.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LanguageTranslated from the French.
LCCN 2001617144
ISBN1565843525
ISBN9781565843523
ISBN9781565844346 (v. 1 ; pbk.)
ISBN1565844343 (v. 1 ; pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks B2430.F722 E5 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold