"What Is Critique?" and "The Culture of the Self"

Foucault's 1978 lecture reinterprets his philosophical project through Kant's "What Is Enlightenment?" by framing critique as a moral stance that challenges existing power dynamics and fosters self-formation within the "politics of truth." This volume includes the first critical edition of this pivotal lecture, an unpublished talk on self-culture, and debates from 1983 at UC Berkeley, where Foucault links Enlightenment ideas to Greco-Roman thought while advocating for a contemporary "new ethics" that transcends conventional religious and scientific frameworks.