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Michel Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics are lectures he gave in 1978–1979 at the Collège de France in which he analyzes the emergence of neoliberalism, government, biopolitics, and contemporary forms of power.
Foucault explores how in antiquity subjectivity and truth were linked through the relationship to the body, pleasures, and self-care, and how this connection gradually changed towards the Christian model of confession.
The Art of Memory (1966), one of the most significant works of intellectual history, explores the history of mnemonics from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to its influence on the science and culture of Europe.
Plato's dialogue Gorgias (c. 380 BC) in which Socrates debates with Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles about the nature of rhetoric, power, justice, and the good life. A harsh criticism of the Sophists and their oratory as flattery rather than knowledge.
Metaphysics is Aristotle's most famous and influential philosophical work, consisting of 14 books. The name Metaphysics is not Aristotle's – it came later because the writings were placed "behind physics" (meta ta physika).