By Bernard E. Harcourt In the end, it is the third epigraph we discussed at our seminar that will serve as epilogue to the first set of Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, Lectures on the Will to Know (1970-1971):… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco Let me build on the fascinating introductory comments of Nancy Luxon and Jim Faubion to articulate some questions that may connect Foucault’s theoretical interventions in the Lectures on the Will to Know with the contemporary issues… Continue Reading
By James D. Faubion In what appears as an appendix to his first year of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault summarizes the task he has undertaken as a “test of the utilizability” of the “Nietzschean model” of the… Continue Reading
By Nancy Luxon Already Bernard Harcourt’s wonderfully synoptic introduction of these Lectures on the Will to Know has recalled something of the events preoccupying Foucault and perhaps his audience in the post-68 moment. These preoccupations around law, economic distribution, and… Continue Reading
By Jesús R. Velasco During Foucault’s first trip to the USA in the Spring of 1971, John K. Simon interviewed him for the Partisan Review. At the outset of the interview, and after having rejected that he had invented a… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Foucault’s first lecture series, Lectures on the Will to Know (1970-1971), introduces a number of important themes concerning knowledge, the will to know, and the power of truth and truth-telling—themes that Foucault would develop during the next… Continue Reading