Azucena González Blanco Knihy

This collected volume explores Foucault's literary thought, in light of the recent publication of unpublished works from his first period (1960s–1970s). It aims at establishing an archeology of the texts that Foucault devotes to literary theory and to clearly literary concepts such as fiction, outside (Blanchot) or transgression (Bataille), in order to relate them to key concepts of the second Foucault (parresia, self-care, veridiction).

In the past decades, with the decline of the Grand Narratives and the subsequent need for new historical and political orientation, literary studies have been reflecting on the role of literature in the world. Together with Jacques Rancière—and in dialogue with Althusser, Foucault, or Fischer-Lichte—the present volume analyzes this political turn of literary studies.