The Government of Self and Others: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982-1983 (Michel Foucault Lectures at the Collège de France, 10)

Foucault is difficult, but essential. For anybody seeking a way in, the series entitled 'Lectures at the College De France', beginning with  Lectures on the Will to Know  is perfect. Because the lectures were written for a lay public, the language makes his concepts much more accessible than does his academic writing. You can almost hear his voice in the presentations. In addition, the lectures distill what later become full-blown treatments. So one can get the essence of Foucault, and witness his development and change as a thinker, by reading the series in chronological order. That might now be possible with the publication of the above-mentioned 'Will...'.

This lecture series from Foucault just before his death illuminates essential elements in the rules that western culture has evolved as aspects of what constitutes acquiring the truth. Foucault goes beyond the conventional debate about truth as some kind of fact, whether empirical, absolute or relatives, to truth being constituted as special kinds of acts.

a great book, anyone working in social/human sciences field should read that

I bought this book because I believe it will help me with research I am doing on Truth and its relationship to Philosophy.