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The Courage of Truth: The Government of Self and Others II; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 Spiral-Bound | May 8, 2012

Michel Foucault, Graham Burchell (Translated by), Frédéric Gros (Edited by), François Ewald (General editor), Alessandro Fontana (General editor), François Ewald (Foreword by), Alessandro Fontana (Foreword by), Arnold I. Davidson (Series edited by)

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Picador is proud to publish the eighth volume in Foucault’s prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.

The Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, 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 conditions based on courage and conviction. His death, on June 25th, 1984, tempts us to detect the philosophical testament in these lectures, especially in view of the prominence they give to the themes of life and death.

Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1250009103
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture.

Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the preeminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines. He died in 1984.

Arnold I. Davidson is the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and professor of the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa. He is coeditor of the volume Michel Foucault: Philosophie.

Graham Burchell is a Translator, and has written essays on Michel Foucault. He is an editor of The Foucault Effect.