Foucault: Lecture 14, 04 March 1986 (Version 1)

<p><em>The Deleuze Seminars</em> is a collection of audio recordings, transcriptions, and English translations of, and supplemental materials from, the lectures French philosopher Gilles&nbsp;Deleuze gave during his career at the University of Paris 8.</p> <p>&quot;Foucault&quot; was a 25-lecture seminar given from October 1985 to May 1986. In these lectures, Deleuze offers his interpretation and analysis of French philosopher Michel Foucault&#39;s work.

Examining the theoretical foundations and major themes of Foucault&#39;s philosophy, Deleuze dedicates several lectures to each of what he calls the &quot;three axes&quot; of Foucault&#39;s thought. This seminar coincides with the publication of Deleuze&#39;s book <em>Foucault</em> (1986).</p> <p>In the 04 March 1986 lecture, topics of discussion include: the theme of the death of man in Foucault&#39;s <em>The Order of Things</em> (<em>Les mot es les choses</em>); the relation of forces as places of perpetual mutations; form as a compound of forces; the modes of existence; the order of infinity; Classical Thought, the infinite Universe and the loss of the center; Spinoza; Mercantilism: currency, the exchangeability of wealth, tables (<em>tableaux</em>) and deployment, the cost of the exchange; general grammar; the Kantian revolution: finitude becomes constituent; the component forces in man: life, work, language, and outside forces (<em>forces du dehors</em>); the nineteenth century and the form &lsquo;Man&rsquo;; the age of the machines; the man-machine system; the age of silicon (following those of watchmaking and carbon); German philosopher and anthropologist Ludwig Feuerbach and the death of God, and the effect of this on human identity; and Nietzsche, the death of man, forces, and the <em>&Uuml;bermensch</em>.</p> <p>This dataset includes: four mp3 recordings of the lecture (total time, 2:20:47), an aggregate version of the audio recordings into a single mp3, and the complete French transcription of the recorded lecture in both pdf (27 pp) and plain text.</p> <p>-</p> <p><em>Les S&eacute;minaires de Deleuze</em> sont une collection d&#39;enregistrements audio, de transcriptions et de traductions en anglais et de documents compl&eacute;mentaires des conf&eacute;rences que le philosophe fran&ccedil;ais Gilles Deleuze a donn&eacute; lors de sa carri&egrave;re &agrave; l&#39;Universit&eacute; de Paris 8.</p> <p>&laquo;Foucault&raquo; &eacute;tait un s&eacute;minaire de 25 conf&eacute;rences donn&eacute; d&#39;octobre 1985 &agrave; mai 1986.