About the beginning of the hermeneutics of the self
Subtitle: lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980
By: Michel Foucault ; edition established by Henri-Paul Fruchaud and Daniele Lorenzini ; introduction and critical apparatus by Laura Cremonesi, Arnold I. Davidson, Orazio Irrera, Daniele Lorenzini, and Martina Tazzioli ; translations by Graham Burchell
Contributors: Fruchaud, Henri-Paul; Lorenzini, Daniele; Cremonesi, Laura; Davidson, Arnold I. (Arnold Ira), 1955-; Irrera, Orazio; Tazzioli, Martina
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780226188546; 9780226266299
Subjects: Truth; Subject (Philosophy); Subjectivity
Work titles: Origine de l'herméneutique de soi
Description: In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship between knowledge, power, and the self. The lectures published here offer one of the clearest pathways into this project, contrasting Greco-Roman techniques of the self with those of early Christian monastic culture in order to uncover, in the latter, the historical origin of many of the features that still characterize the modern subject. They are accompanied by a public discussion and debate as well as by an interview with Michael Bess, all of which took place at the University of California, Berkeley, where Foucault delivered an earlier and slightly different version of these lectures. Foucault analyzes the practices of self-examination and confession in Greco-Roman antiquity and in the first centuries of Christianity in order to highlight a radical transformation from the ancient Delphic principle of "know thyself" to the monastic precept of "confess all of your thoughts to your spiritual guide."0.
Notes: "Originally published as L'origine de l'herméneutique de soi : conférences prononcées à Dartmouth College, 1980.  Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, Paris, 2013."

Includes index.