Summary
Michel Foucault: Writings and conversations
Fifteen of Foucault's texts and conversations, collected in this book, are methodological in nature and follow one of the comparative creative flows of the great French philosopher. At the same time as his famous research books, such as History of Madness, Birth of the Clinic or History of Sexuality, Foucault, forced by the originality of his ideas and pressured by public demands, also wrote books about his books, books in which he discusses the methods he uses in his research. Words and Things or Archeology of the Subject are such books. In addition, he tirelessly and non-stop wrote texts and conducted conversations. (The collected texts and conversations of Foucault span 3,000 large-format pages.) Some of them have become as famous and influential as his books. In the text "Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" (1971), along with an ingenious interpretation of Nietzsche, Foucault shows why he turns from archeology to genealogy. In the conversation "Truth and Power" (1976), these two seemingly opposing concepts are brought into an inextricable connection. In the conversation "Structuralism and poststructuralism" (1983), he answers the question "with which conceptual apparatus to capture the present?" In the text "Two Essays on the Subject and Power" (1984) he gives dizzying analyzes of power relations. In the posthumously published text "What is Enlightenment?" engages in perhaps the most lucid interpretations of Kant. These fifteen texts and conversations are only a part of a huge and infinitely important work, but dealing with philosophy is not possible without them.
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