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In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. This work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher.

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Introduction; PART I: Philosophy as Care of the Self; Chapter 1: Truth as a Problem; Chapter 2: The Socratic Moment; Chapter 3: The Poetics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4: The Cynic & the True Life; PART II: Care of the Self in the Age of Reason; Chapter 5: Foucault's Cartesian Meditations; Chapter 6: The Prince and the Pastor: Figures of Power, Care, & Parrhesia; Chapter 7: Rage for Order, the Advent of Bio-Power; Chapter 8: Towards a Critique of the Present.

Foucaults Askesis An Introduction to the

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810122826, 978-0810122826
      ISBN10: 0810122820
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      Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. This work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; PART I: Philosophy as Care of the Self; Chapter 1: Truth as a Problem; Chapter 2: The Socratic Moment; Chapter 3: The Poetics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4: The Cynic & the True Life; PART II: Care of the Self in the Age of Reason; Chapter 5: Foucault's Cartesian Meditations; Chapter 6: The Prince and the Pastor: Figures of Power, Care, & Parrhesia; Chapter 7: Rage for Order, the Advent of Bio-Power; Chapter 8: Towards a Critique of the Present.

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