Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, Vol. 1

Michel Foucault on Truth, Beauty, and Power, 1954-1984

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by Michel Foucault,

Edited by Paul Rabinow,

Translated by Robert Hurley

New Press

Due/Published August 1998, 320 pages, paper

ISBN 1565844343

New in paper!
This was the first of three volumes to come from the Gallimard edition of Dits at écrits, the 1994 French complete edition of all Foucault's publications outside of his monographs. This volume contains the famous course summaries Foucault submitted to the College de France each year form 1970 to 1982. Never before available in English, these writings provide an overview of Foucault's work in progress during this time, including his groundbreaking analyses of penal institutions, psychiatry, "bio-politics," and the status of the modern subject. A second section contains several interviews along with Foucault's key writings on ethics. These reflect on his concern with the relationship between the subject and "games of truth," and shed new light on his work on the practices and technologies governing sexuality. These include some of the most risky and personal writing of Foucault's career and 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. Essential.