Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France: On the Government of the Living (Paperback)

from elenchus

This is the second I've read of Foucault's transcribed lectures at Collège de France, and confirms it would have been an immense pleasure to attend in person. These essays were as enjoyable as -- when an undergraduate -- I was introduced to Discipline and Punish: not knowing what to make of the h...

from marmel.cest.moi

All of Foucault's best qualities as a philosopher are on display in these lectures -- his wonderfully creative, synthetic thinking, his passion and sheer verbosity. These are dazzling displays of intellect, and they pose significant questions about how Christian traditions have shaped the structu...

from AmandaWelling

Michel Foucault is a brilliant philosopher, but I will admit that I skipped around inside of this book instead of reading it straight through. Not that it wasn't interesting, more of a combination of lack and time and attention. It reads similar to a textbook and it probably won't appeal to those...

from stillatim

I guess this is really important for Foucault's development, or maybe there's a much larger audience for explication of early Christian theories of baptism than I had suspected, but this is wildly over-rated here on Goodreads. The basic idea remains compelling: when did 'truth' become what we thi...

from michaelg16

As a continuation of the wonderfully endless lectures Foucault gave at the College de France, this volume is jam-packed with ideas that are fast-paced and brilliant. However the only way to deeply respond to his thought is to slow down and think. This is not a book for the uninitiated either in t...