« Le rôle de la vérité dans la généalogie foucaldienne du sujet moderne ».
Public lecture by Daniele Lorenzini
(Université Paris-Est Créteil/Università « La Sapienza » di Roma)
Saturday, the 21st January 2012, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (escalier C, premier étage, salle Lalande)
Hosted by the Séminaire Foucault, organised by Jean-François Braunstein,
The aim of this lecture will be to investigate the meaning and the scope of Michel Foucault’s “history of truth”, i.e. his genealogy of the relationship between truth, power and subjectivity in western societies. Its basic argument will be that Foucault’s history of truth has to be understood as an ethical and political task, far more than as an epistemological one, since it is clearly presented as a study of the different “truth-regimes” (lectures at the Collège de France, 1979-80) which represent the conditions of possibility for the government of human beings and, at the same time, the conditions of intelligibility for the processes of subjectivation in which these human beings are involved.
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