Truth in the late Foucault : antiquity, sexuality and psychoanalysis /

The first full treatment of truth as a core philosophical concept in the late Foucault, this volume examines his work on the ancient world and the early church. Each essay features a deep examination as to how the topics of truth and sexuality intersect with and focus on Foucault's engagement w...

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Other Authors: Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024].
Series:Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Truth, dreams, and psychoanalysis in the late Foucault / Paul Allen Miller
  • On dreams, truth, and the aesthetics of existence / Edward McGushin
  • Foucault in the cave with Gadamer : on truth, understanding, and experience / Arash Shokrisaravi
  • Nothing to do with the truth? New reflections on Foucault's reading of Artemidorus / Sandra Boehringer
  • To dream the impossible dream : ParrhÄ“sia and rhetoric (De Oratore 3) / Paul Allen Miller
  • From true confessions to true discourse in late Foucault / Niki Kasumi Clements
  • Confessing in communities : the genealogical exclusion of joy from late antique Christianity / Alex B. Dressler
  • Artemidorus as symptom : Freud and Foucault / Richard H. Armstrong
  • The desiring subject seeks pleasure in history : Li Yinhe's sadomasochistic fictions and Mao's cultural revolution / Leihua Weng
  • Foucault's Herculine Barbin : a step in the genealogy of psychoanalysis / Laurie Laufer
  • The Foucault effect : queer theory and its discontents / David Greven.