Foreword - Introduction - 11 January 1978 - 18 January 1978 - 25 January 1978 - 1 February 1978 - 8 February 1978 - 15 February 1978 - 22 February 1978 - 1 Marc

This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought.

With these lectures Foucault inaugurates his investigations of truth-telling in the ethical domain of practices of techniques of the self. How and why, he asks,

Foucalt deals with the emergence in the early 17th century of a new understanding of society and its relation to war.

The sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Collège de France from 1970 to 1984.