Stuart Elden “Foucault’s Last Decade” (Polity Press, 2016)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Origins of Confession in Foucault's History
Foucault's interest in confession leads from a starting point at the end of volume one through to this concern with the regulation of the self-ancient equity and these kind of things. As he moves through historical periods it shifts in a sense, I mean it's still a shared problem but it becomes much more to do with the relation between the subject and truth. And that then runs through into some of the cosleita interests. He's interested for example in Marcus Aurelius' meditations, text by the Roman Emperor who's interested in that narration of a story about himself. It's there I think even as far back as the history of madness with the question of the
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