On the Government of the Living

On the Government of the Living Lectures at the Collège De France, 1979-1980

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With these lectures Michel Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves?

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ISBN: 9781250081612
Publisher: Picador
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
DEWEY: 194
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xviii, 365
Weight: 362g
Height: 210mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 24mm