{"product_id":"what-is-critique-and-the-culture-of-the-self-9780226383446","title":"What Is Critique? and the Culture of the Self","description":"\u003cb\u003eNewly published lectures by Foucault on critique, Enlightenment, and the care of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On May 27, 1978, Michel Foucault gave a lecture to the French Society of Philosophy where he redefined 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 like this,\" 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This volume presents the first critical edition of this crucial lecture alongside a previously unpublished lecture about the culture of the self and three public debates with Foucault at the University of California, Berkeley, in April 1983.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 the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichel Foucault \u003c\/b\u003e(1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian who held the Chair of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France. \u003cb\u003eHenri-Paul Fruchaud\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor of Michel Foucault's posthumous works. \u003cb\u003eDaniele Lorenzini\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003cb\u003e Arnold I. Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago. \u003cb\u003eClare O'Farrell\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is the founding editor of \u003ci\u003eFoucault Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725065359634,"sku":"9780226383446","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_486d73e6-a83a-4673-8fd7-82d7f0679c6c.jpg?v=1734816018","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/what-is-critique-and-the-culture-of-the-self-9780226383446","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}