Completed just weeks before his death, the lectures in this volume mark a critical juncture in the career of Roland Barthes, in which he declared the intention, deeply felt, to write a novel. Unfolding over the course of two years, Barthes engaged in a unique pedagogical experiment: he combined teaching and writing to "simulate" the trial of novel-writing, exploring every step ...(展开全部)

"The Hermeneutics of the Subject" is the third volume in the collection of Michel Foucault's lectures at the College de France, where faculty give public lectures on any topic of their choosing. Attended by thousands, Foucault's lectures were seminal events in the world of French letters, and his ideas expressed there remain benchmarks of contemporary critical inquiry. Foucault...(展开全部)

In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of 'regimes of truth.' Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedienc...(展开全部)

In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of 'regimes of truth.' Following on from the themes of knowledge-power and governmentality, he turns his attention here to the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. Why and how, he asks, does the exercise of power as government demand not only acts of obedienc...(展开全部)

梅洛－庞蒂，法国著名哲学家，存在主义的代表人物之一。主要著作：《知觉现象学》、《行为的结构》、《可见的与不可见的》、《意义与无意义》等。 王亚娟，哲学博士，南开大学哲学院副教授。研究方向为法国哲学、西方马克思主义。著有：《自然与逻各斯：梅洛-庞蒂的晚期思想及其与胡塞尔的关联》、《通向自然之途——现象学与本体论之间的梅洛-庞蒂》。译有 《论自然》等。

Marking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations. Distrinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attenti...(展开全部)

梅洛－庞蒂，法国著名哲学家，存在主义的代表人物之一。主要著作：《知觉现象学》、《行为的结构》、《可见的与不可见的》、《意义与无意义》等。 王亚娟，哲学博士，南开大学哲学院副教授。研究方向为法国哲学、西方马克思主义。著有：《自然与逻各斯：梅洛-庞蒂的晚期思想及其与胡塞尔的关联》、《通向自然之途——现象学与本体论之间的梅洛-庞蒂》。译有 《论自然》等。

米歇尔·福柯，著名法国思想家、哲学家。他以其无比渊博的学识、才华横溢的文笔、惊世骇俗的思想，深刻影响了后现代主义、权力分析与社会理论、新文化史、刑罚史、身体史、性史、女性主义与酷儿理论，以及文学与艺术批评等各种时代思潮。其主要作品有：《古典时代疯狂史》《词与物》《知识考古学》《性经验史》“法兰西学院课程系列”等。

This volume gives us the transcription of the first of Michel Foucault's annual courses at the Collège de France. Its publication marks a milestone in Foucault's reception and it will no longer be possible to read him in the same way as before. In these lectures the reader will find the deep unity of Foucault's project from Discipline and Punish (1975), dominated by the themes ...(展开全部)

作者：（法国）罗兰·巴尔特（Roland Barthes） 译者：李幼蒸 罗兰·巴尔特，法国著名结构主义文学理论家与文化评论家。其一生经历可以大致划分为三个阶段：媒体文化评论期（1947-1962）、高等研究院教学期（1962-1976），以及法兰西学院讲座教授期（1976-1980）。他和存在主义大师萨特在第二次世界大战后法国文学思想界前后辉映，并被公认为蒙田以来法国最杰出的散文大家之一。 罗兰·巴尔特在法国开创了研究社会、历史、文化、文学深层意义的结构主义和符号学方法，发表了大量分析文章和专著，其丰富的符号学研究成果具有划时代的重要性。巴尔特的符号学理论，从崭新的角度，以敏锐的目光，剖析了时装、照片、电影、广告、叙事、汽车、烹饪等各种文化现象的“记号体系”，从而深刻地改变了人们观察和认识世界及历史的方式。晚期巴尔特对当代西方文化和文学的思考进一步...(展开全部)