Technologies of the Self. A Seminar with Michel Foucault

Martin, L.H., H. Gutman and P. H. Hutton (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 0870235931 / ISBN 13: 9780870235931

Editore: The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, 1988

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Octavo. 166 pages. Signed by the three editors on endpaper. 1st edition. Codice articolo 35227

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Titolo: Technologies of the Self. A Seminar with ...

Casa editrice: The University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst

Data di pubblicazione: 1988

Legatura: Softcover

Condizione: Fine

autografato: Signed by the Authors

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Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self..., about the role of reading and writing in constituting the self... and so on." The book Foucault envisioned was based on a faculty seminar on "Technologies of the Self," originally presented at the University of Vermont in the fall of 1982. This volume is a partial record of that seminar. In many ways, Foucault's project on the self was the logical conclusion to his historical inquiry over twenty-five years into insanity, deviancy, criminality, and sexuality. Because Foucault died before he completed the revisions of his seminar presentations, this volume includes a careful transcription instead...as a prolegomenon to that unfinished task. Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist and literary critic. This volume was edited by Luther H. Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H. Hutton.

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This volume is a wonderful introduction to Foucault and a testimony to the deep humanity of the man himself.