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Quote for May 2012

This theme of the artistic life, which is so important throughout the nineteenth century, basically rests on two principles. First: art is capable of giving a form to existence which breaks with every other form, a form which is that of the true life. The other principle is that, if the artistic life does in fact have the form of the true life, then this in turn guarantees that every work which takes root in and starts from this life truly does beconong to the dynasty and domain of art.

Michel Foucault, (2011) [2008]. The Courage of Truth. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983- 1984. Tr. Graham Burchell. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 187.

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Wanted: audiotapes of Foucault's 1973 lectures

Le Seuil and Gallimard, publishers of the official French editions of Michel Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France, are looking for copies of audio tape recordings of Foucault's lecture series on La société punitive at the Collège de France in Winter and Spring 1973.

These lectures were delivered from January to March 1973. If you have any tapes of these lectures or any information leading to the discovery of such tapes, please contact Caroline Pichon at caroline.pichon@seuil.com , tel: +33 1 41 48 83 43.