Souleymane Bachir Diagne received his academic training in France. An alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure, he holds an agrégation in Philosophy (1978) and he took his Doctorat d’État in philosophy at the Sorbonne (1988) where he also took his… Continue Reading
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her fields of study span from the 19th- and 20th-century literature; politics of culture; feminism; Marx and Derrida; to globalization. Her most… Continue Reading
By Frédéric Gros The problem of truth is both central and complicated in Michel Foucault’s work and particularly present in Foucault’s final lectures at the Collège de France, The Courage of Truth (1984), in his analysis of Socrates’ death and the… Continue Reading
By Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Foucault was looking forward to speaking on the contemporary for his next seminar. I want to honor his idea of the construction of the subject of truth-telling and its connection with the care of the self… Continue Reading
By Souleymane Bachir Diagne It is fascinating that in his last lectures Foucault wants to end with an “explication de texte” on Socrates facing death, the figure of the courage of truth. The gesture can be seen as a return to… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s 1984 lectures on The Courage of Truth represent a direct prolongation of his study of parrhesia from the 1983 lectures The Government of Self and Others—in fact, the 1984 lectures are subtitled The Government of Self… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Thank you, Judith Revel, Sharon Marcus, and John Rajchman, for brilliant presentations that take us to the core of these 1983 lectures: the relationship between the study of ancient parrhesia and the task of contemporary critical… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I greatly appreciate the emphasis, in the insightful comments and articles by Nancy Fraser, Richard Brooks, and Kendall Thomas, on the issue of political economy as a source of truth-making, on the question of neoliberalism as a regime of truth,… Continue Reading
John Rajchman received his PhD from the Philosophy Department at Columbia, where he now teaches in the Art History department. He specializes in theory and criticism in art and philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has recently edited… Continue Reading
The following is a guest post by Stephen Sawyer, organizer of the March 25-26 Foucault and Neoliberalism Conference at the American University of Paris. Professor Sawyer has kindly provided us with concluding remarks on the conference. By Stephen Sawyer Michel… Continue Reading