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In 1970 Foucault began a schedule of weekly public lectures and seminars during the first three months of each year at the Collège de France as the condition of his tenure as professor there.

These continued each year except 1977 until his death in 1984.

The lectures were tape-recorded and Foucault's notes also survive.

In 1997 the lectures began to be published in French.

Of the first nine volumes to be published, eight have been translated into English: Psychiatric Power 1973 – 1974, Abnormal 1974 – 1975, Society Must Be Defended 1975 – 1976, Security, Territory, Population 1977 – 1978, The Birth of Biopolitics 1978-1979, The Hermeneutics of the Subject 1981 – 1982, The Government of Self and Others 1982 – 1983, and The Courage of Truth 1983-1984.