Hi Geoffrey. I'm afraid I cant help you here, but I was hoping you could enlighten me as to the publications you refer to in your post which fleshes out the obscured contents of the fourth volume of the history of sexuality- a publication of lectures (by Foucault?) and a number of papers written about it, you say? If you could refer me to these I would be the most grateful bibliophile on this list serve!
Anticipating your response, Michael Bibby.
--- On Wed, 2/7/08, Ge'off <laurapalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Ge'off <laurapalmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Foucault-L] in(tro)duction + confessional questions
> To: "Mailing-list" <foucault-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Received: Wednesday, 2 July, 2008, 1:09 PM
> Hello to all
> My name's Geoffrey Parkes. I'm studying at the Uni.
> of Southern QLD,
> Australia, and I'm working on my PhD in English
> literature, looking at
> possibilities of a post-Holocaust ethics of the self, using
> selected
> works of Camus, Foucault and Beckett, that might challenge
> resurgent
> fundamentalisms.
> I'm wondering how much work has been published on the
> fourth volume of
> THoS, Confessions of the Flesh. As I understand it, it
> remains archived
> (in Paris?) but a number of papers have been written about
> it, and
> certainly in connection with the publication of the
> lectures.
> Perhaps this is a broader question for discussion as well -
> it could be
> seen that Confessions, as it remains largely unseen, stands
> as an
> illusory key that might unlock the other volumes, and yet,
> from what
> I've read, it seems to also want to read back upon the
> volumes,
> particularly the work that underlies Volume One. It adds to
> the idea of
> a complete narrative, perhaps a western preference and a
> biographical
> one - that closure was achieved. Thoughts?
> Kind regards
> Geoff
>
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