{"product_id":"speaking-the-truth-about-oneself-lectures-at-victoria-university-toronto-1982-9780226826455","title":"Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982","description":"\u003cb\u003eNow in paperback, this collection of Foucault's lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with the care and cultivation of the self, a theme that becomes central to the second, third, and fourth volumes of his \u003ci\u003eHistory of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e. Foucault had always been interested in the question of how constellations of knowledge and power produce and shape subjects, and in the last phase of his life, he became especially interested not only in how subjects are formed by these forces but in how they ethically constitute themselves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this lecture series and accompanying seminar, Foucault focuses on antiquity, starting with classical Greece, the early Roman empire, and concluding with Christian monasticism in the fourth and fifth centuries AD. Foucault traces the development of a new kind of verbal practice-\"speaking the truth about oneself\"-in which the subject increasingly comes to be defined by its inner thoughts and desires. He deemed this new form of \"hermeneutical\" subjectivity important not just for historical reasons, but also due to its enduring significance in modern society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Foucault\u003c\/b\u003e (1926-84) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. His many books in English include \u003ci\u003eThe Order of Things\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDiscipline and Punish\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003e\"Discourse and Truth\" and \"Parrēsia,\"\u003c\/i\u003e the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press. \u003cb\u003eHenri-Paul Fruchaud\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor of Michel Foucault's posthumous works. \u003cb\u003eDaniele Lorenzini\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of philosophy and deputy director of the Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy at the University of Warwick. \u003cb\u003eDaniel Louis Wyche\u003c\/b\u003e is visiting assistant professor of religious studies at Albion College. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50390546481426,"sku":"9780226826455","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7935903a-e2a0-4bce-a284-e93bcc34375b.jpg?v=1728950898","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speaking-the-truth-about-oneself-lectures-at-victoria-university-toronto-1982-9780226826455","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}