Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume, Ethics, contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the Coll ge de France, as well as key writings and candid interviews on ethical matters- from the role of the intellectual and philosopher in society to friendship, sexuality and the care of the self and others.

Michel Foucalt (1926-1984) was one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century and the most prominent thinker in postwar France. Foucault's work influenced disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, philosophy, sociology and literary criticism.

A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment that shows that Foucault's work is as alive and contemporary as ever -- Didier Eribon