Michel Foucault Libri

"Si imprigiona chi ruba, si imprigiona chi violenta, si imprigiona anche chi uccide. Da dove viene questa strana pratica, e la singolare pretesa di rinchiudere per correggere, avanzata dai codici moderni? Forse una vecchia eredità delle segrete medievali? Una nuova tecnologia, piuttosto: la messa a punto, tra il XVI e il XIX secolo, di tutto un insieme di procedure per incasellare, controllare, misurare, addestrare gli individui, per renderli docili e utili nello stesso tempo. Sorveglianza, esercizio, manovre, annotazioni, file e posti, classificazioni, esami, registrazioni. Tutto un sistema per assoggettare i corpi, per dominare le molteplicità umane e manipolare le loro forze, si era sviluppato nel corso dei secoli classici negli ospedali, nell'esercito, nelle scuole, nei collegi, nelle fabbriche: la disciplina. Il XVIII secolo ha senza dubbio inventato la libertà, ma ha dato loro una base profonda e solida, la società disciplinare, da cui dipendiamo ancora oggi".

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the College de France before his death in 1984. In this course, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of truth- telling in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditionsbased on courage and conviction.

Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981 collects French philosopher Michel Foucault's renowned course of lectures...

These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society. Praise for Foucault's Lectures at the Collège de France Series “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 “Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are...[He] is carrying out, in the noblest way, the promiscuous aim of true culture.”—The Nation “[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual coded and ask new questions...[He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.”—The New York Review of Books

The sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.

An exciting and highly original examination of the practices of truth-telling and speaking out freely (parresia) in ancient Greek tragedy and philosophy. Foucault discusses the difficult and changing practices of truth-telling in ancient democracies and tyrannies.

This volume collects a series of lectures given by the renowned French thinker Michel Foucault late in his career. The book is composed of two parts: a talk, Parrēsia, delivered at the University of Grenoble in 1982, and a series of lectures entitled “Discourse and Truth,” given at the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, which appears here for the first time in its full and correct form. Together, they provide an unprecedented account of Foucault’s reading of the Greek concept of parrēsia, often translated as “truth-telling” or “frank speech.” The lectures trace the transformation of this concept across Greek, Roman, and early Christian thought, from its origins in pre-Socratic Greece to its role as a central element of the relationship between teacher and student. In mapping the concept’s history, Foucault’s concern is not to advocate for free speech; rather, his aim is to explore the moral and political position one must occupy in order to take the risk to speak truthfully. These lectures—carefully edited and including notes and introductory material to fully illuminate Foucault’s insights—are a major addition to Foucault’s English language corpus.

In this addition to the College de France Lecture Series Michel Foucault explores the birth of psychiatry, examining Western society's division of 'mad' and 'sane' and how medicine and law influenced these attitudes. This seminal new work by a leading thinker of the modern age opens new vistas within historical and philosophical study.

Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School.