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Lectures on the Will to Know
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In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.
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INDEX OF NOTIONS
Compiled by Sue Carlton
Page numbers followed by n refer to the notes
ablution 167â70, 171
agĹn 36, 75â6, 80, 82n, 91, 99n, 101
agrarian crisis (seventh and sixth centuries) 121â3
apophantic discourse 49, 50, 54n, 64â7, 68
appearance 205â6, 208, 217, 218, 221n
see also error; illusion; lie
archeology 225, 262, 274
The Archeology of Knowledge 266, 270, 272
asceticism 25, 182n, 206, 209, 222n, 275
burial, regulation of funerary rites 176â7, 178â9, 180
caesura 161â3, 165, 198
calendar 108, 110, 111, 116, 118, 122, 133
colonization 121â2, 123, 137
confession 85, 86, 238
contemplation 11â12, 13, 18, 22â3, 25, 29n, 210, 227
contradiction 43, 61â2, 63â4, 65
criminal/criminality 167, 169, 177, 179â81, 187, 190
and purity/impurity 183â6
searching for criminal 234, 239, 248, 250, 258n
trials 92â3
debt 106â8, 117, 122
cancellation of 128, 139, 157
and institution of money 134, 136, 137, 138,...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- one  9 DECEMBER 1970
- two  16 DECEMBER 1970
- three  6 JANUARY 1971
- four  13 JANUARY 1971
- five  27 JANUARY 1971
- six  3 FEBRUARY 1971
- seven  10 FEBRUARY 1971
- eight  17 FEBRUARY 1971
- nine  24 FEBRUARY 1971
- ten  3 MARCH 1971
- eleven  10 MARCH 1971
- twelve  17 MARCH 1971
- thirteen  LECTURE ON NIETZSCHE
- Course summary
- OEDIPAL KNOWLEDGE
- Course context
- Index of notions
- Index of names