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On The Government of the Living: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980

By Michel Foucault

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2014
ISBN
1403986622, 9781403986627
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6654166 bytes)
Series
Michel Foucault: Lectures at the Collège de France
Pages
448\384
Time added
2015-05-02 06:57:20

Description

Why and how, Foucault asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedience and submission, but 'truth acts' in which individuals subject to relations of power are also required to be subjects in procedures of truth-telling? How and why are subjects required not just to tell the truth, but to tell the truth about themselves? These questions lead to a re-reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King and, through an examination of the texts of Tertullian, Cassian, and others, to an analysis of the 'truth acts' in early Christian practices of baptism, penance, and spiritual direction.

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