Call for Papers

 Origins of Truth: Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know

 November 8-9, 2013

A conference presented by

the Foucault Society

and

Stony Brook University Department of Philosophy

Location:

Stony Brook Manhattan

387 Park Avenue South

New York, NY

Keynote: Todd May, Clemson University: “The Will to Know”

Guest Speaker: Eduardo Mendieta, Stony Brook University

In celebration of the publication of Michel Foucault’s Lectures on the Will to Know: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1970-1971

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), we invite participants to a conference in New York City.

 As the first of Foucault’s annual courses, Lectures on the Will to Know set an agenda for his intellectual journey of the 1970s and 1980s. Its publication in English translation opens up new directions for research into power, knowledge and the “formation of discourses.”

Papers are invited which analyze Lectures on the Will to Know – its sources, themes…