Michel Foucault's lecture course "Governing Oneself and Others" was given at the College de France in the 1982-1983 academic year. Here Michel Foucault develops the themes outlined in The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1981-1982 academic year), and outlines some of the ideas that will be developed in the last two volumes of The History of Sexuality (The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self). The texts of this year's lectures were to be included in the book "Governing Oneself and Others", the publication of which was prevented by Foucault's illness and death. The main concept of the course was parresia - a polysemantic term that allowed Foucault to identify the problem of speaking the truth in philosophical discourse, which can be traced from antiquity to the present day. Through this problematization, Foucault reconsiders the meaning of philosophy as a practice of transforming the self, allowing one to govern oneself and others. Politics turns out to be an obligatory test through which philosophy must pass.

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