Technologies of the Self by Luther H Martin
Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self...,about the role of reading and writing in constituting the self... and so on." The book Foucault envisioned was based on a faculty seminar on "Technologies of the Self", originally presented at the University of Vermont in the fall of 1982. This volume is a partial record of that seminar. In many ways, Foucault's project on the self was the logical conclusion to his historical inquiry over twenty-five years into insanity, deviancy, criminality, and sexuality. Because Foucault died before he completed the revisions of his seminar presentations, this volume includes a careful transcription instead...as a prolegomenon to that unfinished task.At the time of his death in June 1984, Michel Foucault was Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France, and he had lectured at a number of universities in Europe and the United States. He authored a case study on Herculine Barbin, Being the Newly Found Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite (Eng.) in addition to several interviews and articles. Both were the basis for films (Trans., Pantheon Books, 1980). Foucault's most famous works include Madness and Civilisation (Eng. The Order of Things (Eng. trans., 1965);
The Archaeology of Knowledge (Eng. trans., 1970); The Beginning of the Clinic (Eng. trans., 1972); Discipline and Punish (Eng. trans., 1973); The History of Sexuality (Eng. trans., 1977); and the three volumes of The History of Sexuality (Eng. trans., 1977).
Pantheon published the translations in 1978, 1985, and 1986. Huck Gutman teaches American poetry and literary theory at the University of Vermont as an Associate Professor of English. Humanity in Barbary: Individual and Society in Norman Mailer's Novels (University Press of New England, 1975) and studies on American Poetry are among his works. He is currently working on a history of American literature and curating a collection of articles on American literature from around the world.Patrick H.
Hutton teaches French intellectual history at the University of Vermont and is a professor of history. An Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic (Greenwood Publishing, 1986) was edited by him. Luther H. Martin is the author of The Cult of the Revolutionary Tradition (University of California Press, 1981), a collection of writings on intellectual history and historiography. Martin is a Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont and the author of Hellenistic Religions: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1987) as well as essays on Hellenistic religions and religion theory.
Studies on Jung and the Study of Religion (University Press of America, 1985) was co-edited by him.Rux S. Martin is a freelance writer and editor who also acted as the seminar's secretary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780870235931 |
| ISBN 10 | 0870235931 |
| Title | Technologies of the Self |
| Author | Luther H Martin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Year published | 1988-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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