This book focuses on Foucault's later work and his (re)turn to 'the hermeneutics of the
subject' exploring the implications of his thinking for education pedagogy and related
disciplines. What and who is the subject of education and what are the forms of
self-constitution? Chapters investigate Foucault's notion of 'the culture of self' in relation
to questions concerning truth (parrhesia or free speech) and subjectivity especially with
reference to the literary genres of confession and biography and the contemporary political
forms of individualization (governmentality).
