In the first of his annual series of lectures at the Collège de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

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Author Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault, acknowledged as the pre-eminent philosopher of France in the 1970s and 1980s, continues to have enormous impact throughout the world in many disciplines.

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Foreword: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana Translator's Note 1. 9 December 1970 2. 16 December 1970 3. 6 January 1971 4. 13 January 1971 5. 27 January 1971 6. 3 February 1971 7. 10 February 1971 8. 17 February 1971 9. 24 February 1971 10. 3 March 1971 11. 10 March 1971 12. 17 March 1971 13. Lecture On Nietzsche Course summary Oedipal Knowledge Course context Index of notions Index of names