Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life (Topics in Historical Philosophy)
Edward F. McGushin | 2007-04-03 00:00:00 | Northwestern University Press | 380 | Philosophy
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Excellent book. Thoroughly researched and creatively but faithfully constructed to provide the reader with a guiding thread linking the various stages of Foucault's work together in a compelling way. Through attention to Foucault's late work, on ancient practices of the self, McGushin is able to understand Foucault's own philosophical work as itself an exercise in self-fashioning. From this perspective Foucault's various methods or periods, whether archeological, genealogical or otherwise, can be seen as different manners in which Foucault took up a relation to his past both as a way of diagnosing the present and as a way of transforming himself, inventing a new form of subjectivity as an effective resistance to the subject produced by bio-power.
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