Foucault’s first course

Well, the first at the Collège de France. Amazon.fr have Foucault’s 1970-71 lecture course listed. It’s entitled Leçons sur la volonté de savoir – the ‘Leçons sur’ bit is presumably to avoid confusion with History of Sexuality volume I, when he reused the title. It’s apparently followed by something called ‘Le savoir d’Oedipe’. Oedipus figures in some of Foucault’s other works of around this time – notably the first of the Rio lectures on ‘Truth and Juridical Forms’. The blurb says it covers figures from Hesiod to Nietzsche and also puts him in relation to Heidegger, Jean-Pierre-Vernant, and Marcel Detienne.

This is an exciting development – I’d heard rumours that some of the early lecture courses were missing some tape recordings. But the early 80s ones look to have been put back again.


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