Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collčge de France (1981-1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory and challenging several interpretations produced over the last few decades.
In this later phase of his thinking, Foucault deepens and expands the course of his preceding works on the genealogy of subjectivity, while at the same time adding a significant ethical and political dimension to it. His focus on the ancient ethics of care of the self and technologies of self-constitution during this period adds important nuances to his previous positions on power, truth, and subjectivity, shedding new light on his philosophical endeavour as a whole and situating his reflections at the centre of current moral debates.
Focusing on the last stage of Foucaults thought, this book brings together international scholars to relaunch the critical debate on the significance of Foucaults so-called ethical turn and to discuss the ways in which the perspectives offered by Foucault in this period might help us to unravel modernity, giving us the tools to understand and transform our present, ethically and politically.
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Marta Faustino and Gianfranco Ferraro, along with their contributors, have provided us with what might be the definitive guide to Foucaults thinking and writing in the last five years of his life. The Late Foucault is decidedly the best first place to go on the late Foucault. * Joseph Westfall, Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, USA * An outstanding and timely collection, casting fresh light on Foucaults thinking in its last phase. These engaging, incisive essays provide a reappraisal of Foucaults late turn to the ethics of the ancient world, and its significance for his views on subjectivity, truth and power in the present. * Christopher Falzon, Visiting Fellow in Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Australia *
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The first comprehensive study on the later stages of Michel Foucaults (1926-84) thought, focusing on the ethical and political questions he raised during this period.
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| Introduction: Another Word on Foucault's Final Words |
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Part 1 Philosophical Practices, Philosophy as Practice |
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1 Foucault's Reinvention of Philosophy as a Way of Life: Genealogy as a Spiritual Exercise |
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2 Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot |
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3 The Great Cycle of the World: Foucault and Hadot on the Cosmic Perspective and the Care of the Self |
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Part 2 Care of the Self, Care of Others |
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4 Foucault According to Stiegler: Technics of the Self |
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5 Notes Towards a Critical History of Musicalities: Philodemus on the Use of Musical Pleasures and the Care of the Self |
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6 Foucault's Ultimate Technology |
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Part 3 Ontology of the Present, Politics of Truth |
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7 The Care of the Present: On Foucault's Ontological Machine |
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8 Agonistic Truth: The Issue of Power Between the Will to Knowledge and Government by Truth |
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9 From Jurisdiction to Veridiction: The Late Foucault's Shift to Subjectivity |
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Part 4 Government of Self, Government of Others |
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10 Understanding Power Through Governmentality |
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11 On Authority: A Discussion Between Michel Foucault and Hannah Arendt |
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12 Neoliberal Subjectivity at the Political Frontier |
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Part 5 Truth-Telling, Truth-Living |
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14 Truth-Telling as Therapeutic Practice: On the Tension Between Psychiatric Subjectivation and Parrhesiastic Self-Cultivation |
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15 Foucault, the Politics of Ourselves, and the Subversive Truth-Telling of Trauma: Survivors as Parrhesiasts |
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| List of Contributors |
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Marta Faustino is a research fellow at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), where she currently coordinates the Art of Living Research Group. Her main research focus is the relationship between philosophy and therapeutic and self-cultivating practices. She is the author of several articles on Nietzsche, Hadot, Foucault and the Hellenistic philosophers and co-editor of Nietzsche e Pessoa: Ensaios (Tinta-da-China, 2016) and Rostos do Si (Vendaval, 2018).
Gianfranco Ferraro is a post-doctoral researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA). His research focuses on philosophical forms of conversion, particularly concerning Foucault, Nietzsche, and the history of utopian thought. Recent publications on this topic include Da vocaēćo (2019), From Merleau-Ponty to Foucault (and Beyond): Towards a Contemporary Ontology of Immanence (2019), Exercķcios de inactualidade (2019), and La conversione del quotidiano: Foucault e lutopia come tecnica di vita (2019). He is a member of the Red Iberoamericana Foucault and director of the international journal Thomas Project: A Border Journal for Utopian Thoughts.
