The Hermeneutics of the Subject : Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France)

A third collection of lectures at the Collg̈e de France sheds new light on the concepts of the "self" and the "care of the self" have been conceived in ancient philosophy, beginning with Socrates, arguing that the problems of the ethical formation of the self form the foundation for modern conceptions of the self and contemporary moral thought. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.