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About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
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Texte integral des deux conferences donnees par M. Foucault au College de Dartmouth en 1980 sous les titres de « Subjectivity and Truth » et « Christianity and Confession ». Elles marquent une transition de l'etude des systemes de relations de pouvoir vers l'etude de la creation de l'agent ethique et font allusion aux themes qui apparaitront plus tard dans les volumes 2 et 3 de l'« Histoire de la sexualite »
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Metadata
- Authors
- FOUCAULT, M., & BLASIUS, M.
- Affiliations
- City University of New York (US)
- ORCID
- FOUCAULT, MICHEL
- Venue
- Political Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1993-05
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 198-227
- ISSN
- 0090-5917 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7476
- OpenAlex
- W2091088468
- Cited by
- 767
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- 0
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- FWCI
- 10.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Political Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Philosophy and Social Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Theology and Sovereignty
- Keywords
- hermeneutics of the self, subjectivity, truth, confession, Christianity, power relations, self-creation, Michel Foucault, history of sexuality
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