Michel Foucault, Lectures at the Collège de France: Lectures on the Will to Know: 1970-1971 and Oedipal Knowledge (Hardcover)

from elenchus

A translated edition of Foucault's lectures, rewarding careful attention and re-reading. I suspect these would make as sound an introduction as any: not in being easy or summary in approach (they are neither), but by virtue of a focus on recurring concerns to Foucauldian analysis, and as exemplar...

from chuck_ralston

This book presents transcriptions of Foucault's dozen lectures at the College de France during the academic year from December 1970 to March 1971, Foucault's first year in the College's inaugural Chair in the History of Systems of Thought. These are followed by a lecture on Nietzsche given at McD...

from frellingtralk

What is most commendable about this new edition of Foucault's early lectures at Collège de France is the rich and detailed endnotes. The translator Graham Burchell does a laudable job of capturing the emotion and humor that hides within Foucault's notoriously impenetrable prose. This volume marks...

from jcelrod

As other reviewers have said, this is definitely not for those who aren't already familiar with Foucault and his ideas. I've only read one of his works before (Discipline & Punish) so found this to be a heavy difficult at times but definitely intriguing.

from michaelg16

Not a book for the timid or for anyone wishing to attempt Foucault for the first time, this is a wonderful continuation of the course lecture notes edited and compiled by attendees and scholars of the great College de France tour de force -too many "de"'s" - and I very much agree with another rev...