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 Judith Revel Translated by Raphaëlle Jean Burns There are, I think, two ways of grasping these lectures. The first is to attempt to understand how Foucault develops, from the beginning of the 1980s onwards, a “greco-roman sequence” which he… 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