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Lectures on the Will to Know: 1970-1971 and Oedipal Knowledge

M. Foucault

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publish Date: Apr 9th, 2013
  • Pages: 293
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2013 - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.22in - 6.23in - 0.92in - 1.07lb
  • EAN: 9781403986566
  • Categories: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyPoliticalSocial

About the Author

Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

Praise for this book

"Foucault is quite central to our sense of where we are." - The Nation

"Ideas spark off nearly every page . . . The words may have been spoken in [the 1970s], but they seem as alive and relevant as if they had been written yesterday." - Bookforum