by Michel Foucault · Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788449307119
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This book, belonging to the Paidos Básica series, presents a collection of texts, interviews, and commentaries by Michel Foucault, articulating a program of thought from 1978. Foucault explores the relationship between power, truth, and subjectivity, arguing that the truth about oneself is constructed through power relations. The author invites reflection on the ethics and aesthetics of existence, proposing the art of living as a work of art in itself. This volume, the last in a series of three, offers a hermeneutics of being based on the study of Hellenistic and Roman antiquity, showing how the human being has been the object of various production techniques. Foucault proposes the invention of life possibilities and the creation of different spaces, where self-care becomes a political task.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French historian of ideas and philosopher, who was also an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher. Foucault's theories primarily addressed the relationships between power, knowledge and liberty, and he analyzed how they are used as a form of social control through multiple institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limits on himself. His thought has influenced academics within a large number of contrasting areas of study, with this especially including those working in anthropology, communication studies, criminology, cultural studies, feminism, literary theory, psychology, and sociology. His efforts against homophobia and racial prejudice as well as against other ideological doctrines have also shaped research into critical theory and Marxism–Leninism alongside other topics.
