The Politics of Truth (Semiotext(E) Foreign Agents Series) - Softcover

Foucault, Michel; Foucault, Maurice; Lotringer, Sylvere; Hochroth, Lysa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570270279 ISBN 13: 9781570270277

Publisher: Semiotext, 1997

Synopsis

In 1784, the German newspaper Berlinische Monatsschrift asked its audience to reply to the question "What is Enlightenment?" Immanuel Kant took the opportunity to investigate the purported truths and assumptions of his age. Two hundred years later, Michel Foucault wrote a response to Kant's initial essay, positioning Kant as the initiator of the discourse and critique of modernity. The Politics of Truth takes this initial encounter between Foucault and Kant, as a framework for its selection of unpublished essays and transcripts of lectures Foucault gave in America and France between 1978 and 1984, the year of his death. Ranging from reflections on the Enlightenment and revolution to a consideration of the Frankfurt School, this collection offers insight into the topics preoccupying Foucault as he worked on what would be his last body of published work, the three-volume History of Sexuality. It also offers what is in a sense the most "American" moment of Foucault's thinking, for it was in America that he realized the necessity of tying his own thought to that of the Frankfurt School.

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Michel Foucault (1926-84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.

Edition details

• Publisher: Semiotext
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1570270279
• ISBN 13: 9781570270277
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240