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want to read this book This is a strong book that is solidly positioned in the history of intellectual culture, Focusing on the space between Discipline and Punish and the History of Sexuality, Elden probes how Foucault's metaproject the construction of the self emerged from the myriad of his interests.


What is remarkable about this book is readers gain a sense of how Foucault would have liked to

have worked through small seminars with active contributors and how he was unsettled by the large open sessions where he was asked to speak.
Also and fascinating Elden reveals the multiple projects that were still bubbling, even at the time of his death, He never wrote a book at a time, but had multiple trajectories in place for his publications,

The only area that left me unsatisfied was a lack of theorization and discussion of Foucault's antistatism, The focus on the creation and construction of the self was the priority, OnAugust, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality.
A little under ten years later, onJune, shortly after the second and third volumes were published, he was dead,

This decade is one of the most fascinating of his career, It begins with the initiation of the sexuality project, and ends with its enforced and premature closure, Yet inhe had something very different in mind for The History of Sexuality than the way things were left in, Foucault originally planned a thematically organised series of six volumes, but wrote little of what he promised and published none of them, Instead over the course of the next decade he took his work in very different directions, studying, lecturing and writing about historical periods stretching back to antiquity.


This book offers a detailed intellectual history of both the abandoned thematic project and the more properly historical version left incomplete at his death.
It draws on all Foucaults writings in this period, his courses at the Collège de France and lectures elsewhere, as well as material archived in France and California to provide a comprehensive overview and synthetic account of Foucaults last decade.
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