Confessions of the Flesh: Michel Foucault’s Final Volume of The History of Sexuality

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Thursday, December 5, 2019, 9:00am - 6:00pm

Location:

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Adolphus Busch Hall at
Cabot Way, 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge

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https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2019/12/confessions-of-the-flesh-history-sexuality

Event Description:

In February 2018, the fourth and final volume of Michel Foucault's
History of Sexuality project — Confessions of the Flesh — was
published for the first time in French by Éditions Gallimard. This is
an extraordinary publishing event since the book was not supposed to
have been printed at all. This one-day conference will assess the
reception and impact of this missing volume of Foucault's History of
Sexuality. It will highlight the text of Confessions of the Flesh, its
place in Foucault's oeuvre, the context in which he wrote, and the
contemporary relevance of this new work. It is far enough away from
the Foucault-overload of past decades that it is now possible to
freshly examine the enduring value of this influential thinker — a
re-examination inspired by the belated publication of his final book.

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Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 09:00 to 18:00

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