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Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

Martin, Luther H.
Gutman, Huck
Hutton, Patrick H.

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0870235931
ISBN13: 9780870235931
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: Jan 7 1988
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.47 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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