On The Government of the Living

Lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-1980

M. Foucault, Kenneth A. Loparo, Arnold I. Davidson, Kenneth A. Loparo, Graham Burchell

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781403986627
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137491824
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Modern Philosophy

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks, does the government of men require those subject to power to be subjects who must tell the truth about themselves? 

                          

                                   

INDEX OF NOTIONS

Compiled by Sue Carlton

Page numbers followed by n refer to endnotes

alethurgy (manifestation of truth) 7–10, 11, 29, 47–8, 66–7, 328–9

and the first person (subject) 49–50, 52, 73, 115, 128, 145–6

see also subject-truth relationship; subjectivity

of gods 33–4, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41–2, 328

judicial 39, 48, 57

see also truth-telling

and obligation 93–9, 101–2, 103, 322

see also truth, regimes of

oracular 40, 48

and power 4–10, 13–17, 22–3, 25, 48, 73, 74–5, 80–1, 328, 329, 333

of the seer 50

self-alethurgy 52

of slaves 33–4, 35–7, 38–9, 40, 41–2, 328–9

and tragedy 23–5, 29, 66

of witness 39, 49–50, 81–2, 85, 88, 100, 330

see also truth, discovery of; truth acts

almsgiving 176

anachōrēsis (isolated asceticism) 262–3

anarcheology 79, 330

anarchy 78–80, 90n

anchorites 263–4, 282n

antinomianism 184

Apologists 104–5, 115, 116, 134

Apostolic Fathers 115...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• one l9 JANUARY 1980
• two 16 JANUARY 1980
• three 23 JANUARY 1980
• four 30 JANUARY 1980
• five 6 FEBRUARY 1980
• six 13 FEBRUARY 1980
• seven 20 FEBRUARY 1980
• eight 27 FEBRUARY 1980
• nine 5 MARCH 1980
• ten 12 MARCH 1980
• eleven 19 MARCH 1980
• twelve 26 MARCH 1980
• Course summary
• Course context
• Index of notions
• Index of names