English summary: This ambitious volume examines the Foucaults later writings from the 1980s. Foucaults contemporaries were baffled by his new perspective from this period in which he explored the modalities of a relationship with the self and theMoreEnglish summary: This ambitious volume examines the Foucaults later writings from the 1980s.
Foucaults contemporaries were baffled by his new perspective from this period in which he explored the modalities of a relationship with the self and the truth, seeming to blur the image of a Foucault concerned with describing and denouncing the forms of contemporary power. This study brings to light the theoretical and practical aspects of this period, in order to a reinvention of our own actuality. French description: Les recherches menees par Foucault au cours des annees quatre-vingt demeurent, a beaucoup degards, indecidables.
Doit-on parler, a leur propos, dun retour aux questions classiques du sujet, de la morale, de la liberte? Dun abandon de la mise en perspective politique? Dun dandysme esthetisant? Les contemporains furent profondement deconcertes par des analyses qui, en se concentrant sur les modalites du rapport a soi et a la verite dans lAntiquite ou le christianisme primitif, paraissaient brouiller limage dun Foucault attache a decrire et denoncer les formes du pouvoir moderne.
Le present ouvrage se propose de relever le defi pose par ce dernier moment, aussi fecond que provocateur, de la pensee foucaldienne, den degager les enjeux theoriques et pratiques, et de se donner les moyens, a partir deux, de reinventer notre actualite .