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The Road to Eternity constitutes the last volume of the six-volume translation selection into Turkish from Dits et écrits, which brings together Foucault's books and texts other than the lectures he gave at the Colléege de France. The previous volumes consisted of Foucault's writings that comprehensively addressed his interventions, which left their mark on the contemporary world of thought and action in many different fields and whose permanence is undoubtedly permanent: The new meaning and function of the intellectual in today's Western societies and especially after the events of 68, which modern philosophy takes as a given. An in-depth analysis of how the subject is actually established by knowledge-power through the history of science and political theory, historical observations on the confinement and surveillance practices used by the power in this process, and forms of analysis that enable knowledge and power, as forms of rationality, to be understood both separately and in mutual relationship with each other. detailed discussions of archeology and genealogy and, finally, the nineteenth and 20th centuries, which had a very important impact on Foucault. Evaluations about the thinkers of the 19th century...

Language Going to Infinity, on the other hand, covers Foucault's works, which played a very important role in his influence on the fields of philosophy, history and politics, as well as on art theory, but were not included in the previous volumes of the Selected Writings series. These texts, written on literature, theatre, cinema, photography and music, are written by writers who shaped modern European literature such as Hölderlin, Flaubert, Roussel, Blanchot, Bataille, Klossowski, Robbe-Grillet and Duras, as well as directors such as Pasolini and Schroeter, Duane Michaels. offers unexpected perspectives on the photographs and music of Pierre Boulez. A significant part of these writings, which span a wide period of time from the early 1960s until Foucalt's death in 1984, are not only interventions in art criticism or theory, but also enable us to recognize Foucault as a writer who weaves the subtleties of the language he uses with dazzling mastery, as well as providing insight into the subject's It also has the feature of exemplifying its withdrawal from the philosophy scene through art.


XX. Language Going to Infinity exemplifies the place where Michel Foucault, one of the thinkers of the century, took with great passion a perspective that comprehends and criticizes every aspect of the age he lives in and its historical background, in contrast to his intellectual model who is stuck in increasingly specialized research areas.



Number of Pages: 384

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2006

Number of Pages: 384

Language Turkish