Ditranskrip dan disunting dari rekaman kaset rangkaian enam kuliah Michel Foucault dalam bahasa Inggris di Universitas California, Berkeley, musim gugur 1983, sebagai bagian dari seminarnya, ''"Wacana dan Kebenaran,''' buku ini menelusuri gagasan tentang parrhesia atau ''"keterusterangan dalam berbicara kebenaran.''' "Menangkap aspek-aspek kritis pemikiran akhir Foucault, dan menekankan warisan intelektual yang mewujud dalam dan melalui korpus karyanya.''' '' Foucault Studies "Banyak yang bisa dipelajari dari paparan Foucault mengenai praktik dan teknik pengungkapan kebenaran di zaman antik. Dan banyak yang bisa dipelajari mengenai bentuk proyek filsafat Foucault sendiri pada tahun-tahun terakhir hidupnya sebelum wafat pada 1984.''' '' Essays in Philosophy
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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," but before he was Professor at University of Tunis, Tunisia, and then Professor at University Paris VIII. He lectured at several different Universities over the world as at the University at Buffalo, the University of California, Berkeley and University of São Paulo, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and discourse have been widely influential in academic circles. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the poststructuralist and postmodernist labels later attributed to him, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Immanuel Kant. Foucault's project was particularly influenced by Nietzsche, his "genealogy of knowledge" being a direct allusion to Nietzsche's "genealogy of morality". In a late interview he definitively stated: "I am a Nietzschean." Foucault was listed as the most cited scholar in the humanities in 2007 by the ISI Web of Science.
