Michel Foucault

Public lectures

History of systems of thought
Upcoming

Electing Foucault to the Collège de France: Scientific and Political Implications
Orazio Irrera & Céline Surprenant

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17:30 to 19:00

Foucault and College Life: Dialogue with Peers, Establishment of Chairs
Aurèle Méthivier & Sandra Boehringer

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17:30 to 19:00

Foucault the Teacher: The Coherence of a Career Path and Its Place in His Work
Philippe Sabot & Elisabetta Basso

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17:30 to 19:00

Working with Foucault: The College's Seminars
Pasquale Pasquino & Carolina Verlengia

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17:30 to 19:00

The History and Legacy of a Lesson: “What Is the Enlightenment?”
Antoine Lilti

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17:30 to 19:00
15 series

2026 - 2027

Michel Foucault at the Collège de France
Didier Fassin, Michel Foucault

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Special events

A series of lectures accompanying the exhibition “Foucault: An Intellectual Adventure at the Collège de France.”

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1983 - 1984

The Government of Self and Others : the courage of truth
Michel Foucault

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1982 - 1983

Government of self and others
Michel Foucault

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1981 - 1982

Hermeneutics of the subject
Michel Foucault

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1980 - 1981

Subjectivity and truth
Michel Foucault

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1979 - 1980

Government of the living
Michel Foucault

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1978 - 1979

The birth of biopolitics
Michel Foucault

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1977 - 1978

Security, territory and population
Michel Foucault

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1975 - 1976

"We must defend the company"
Michel Foucault

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1974 - 1975

The Abnormals
Michel Foucault

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1973 - 1974

Psychiatric power
Michel Foucault

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1972 - 1973

The Punitive Society
Michel Foucault

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1971 - 1972

Penal institutions and theories
Michel Foucault

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1970 - 1971

The Order of Discourse
Michel Foucault

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Opening lecture

Lessons on the will to know
Michel Foucault

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