La Volonté de savoir
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La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Volonté de savoir canonical | 3 |
| Leçons sur la volonté de savoir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7109241 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Volonté de savoir Context triple: [The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, alternativeTitle, La Volonté de savoir]
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La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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La Valeur de la science
La Valeur de la science is a 1905 philosophical work by French mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré that explores the nature, methods, and limits of scientific knowledge.
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La Vérité des sciences
La Vérité des sciences is a 17th-century philosophical treatise by Marin Mersenne that defends the reliability of scientific knowledge against skepticism and reconciles it with Christian theology.
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D.
Le Curieux
Le Curieux is a satirical poetic work by the French dramatist and poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
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Le Message
Le Message is a short story by Honoré de Balzac that forms part of his larger collection Scènes de la vie parisienne within La Comédie humaine.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Volonté de savoir Target entity description: La Volonté de savoir is Michel Foucault’s influential first volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how modern societies produce and regulate discourse about sex as a form of power.
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L’Archéologie du savoir
L’Archéologie du savoir is a 1969 methodological work by French philosopher Michel Foucault that outlines his approach to analyzing the history of ideas and discourses.
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B.
La Recherche de l’absolu
La Recherche de l’absolu is a novel by Honoré de Balzac that explores obsession, alchemy, and the destructive pursuit of scientific perfection within a bourgeois family.
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C.
La Valeur de la science
La Valeur de la science is a 1905 philosophical work by French mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré that explores the nature, methods, and limits of scientific knowledge.
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D.
La Vérité des sciences
La Vérité des sciences is a 17th-century philosophical treatise by Marin Mersenne that defends the reliability of scientific knowledge against skepticism and reconciles it with Christian theology.
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E.
Le Curieux
Le Curieux is a satirical poetic work by the French dramatist and poet Jean-Baptiste Rousseau.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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first volume of a series ⓘ |
| arguesAgainst | repressive hypothesis about sexuality ⓘ |
| author | Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
biopower
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confession ⓘ discursive production of sexuality ⓘ power/knowledge ⓘ repressive hypothesis ⓘ |
| claimsThat |
modern societies incite discourse on sex
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power operates through the production of knowledge about sex ⓘ sexuality is an effect of discourse and power relations ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| englishEditionTitle |
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
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linked to:
The History of Sexuality
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| englishTitle | The Will to Knowledge ⓘ |
| field |
gender studies
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history ⓘ philosophy ⓘ queer theory ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| followedBy |
The Care of the Self
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The Use of Pleasure ⓘ |
| hasForm |
print book
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translated edition ⓘ |
| influenced |
critical theory
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cultural studies ⓘ gender studies ⓘ history of sexuality scholarship ⓘ queer theory ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of how discourse on sex functions as a technique of power
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critique of juridico-discursive concept of power ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle | La Volonté de savoir ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | The History of Sexuality ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
continental philosophy
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post-structuralism ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1976 ⓘ |
| publisher | Éditions Gallimard ⓘ |
| seriesTitleInFrench |
Histoire de la sexualité
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linked to:
The History of Sexuality
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| subject |
biopolitics
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discourse ⓘ history of sexuality ⓘ modernity ⓘ power ⓘ sexuality ⓘ social control ⓘ |
| volumeNumber | 1 ⓘ |
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