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
By John Rajchman I’d like to thank Bernard and Jesús for initiating and orchestrating this extraordinary exercise of reading through the Courses of Michel Foucault consecutively and in detail with many distinguished discussants in and out of Columbia. Reading through the… Continue Reading
By Judith Revel Il y a, je crois, deux manières de se saisir de ces cours. La première est de tenter de comprendre comment s’articule dès le début des années 1980 la « séquence gréco-romaine » que Foucault développe, ce qu’il appelle… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “Where shall we go to demand justice when it is the iniquity of the powerful that destroys us?” – Creusa in Euripides’s Ion, quoted in Foucault, The Government of Self and Others, p. 135. “Philosophy thus… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Le courage de la vérité: Le gouvernement de soi et des autres, Tome 2. Cours au Collège de France. 1983-1984. Frédéric Gros, ed. (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2009). Michel Foucault, The Courage… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt, Daniele Lorenzini, and Jesús R. Velasco Michel Foucault, Le Gouvernement de soi et des autres. Cours au Collège de France. 1982-1983. Frédéric Gros, ed. (Paris: Gallimard/Le Seuil, 2008). Michel Foucault, The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at… Continue Reading