Description
Through a detailed study of Foucault's last courses, McGushin demonstrates that this new way of practicing philosophical askesis evokes Foucault's ethical resistance to modern relations of power and knowledge. In order to understand Foucault's later project, then, it is necessary to see it within the context of his earlier work. If his earlier projects represented an attempt to bring to light the relations of power and knowledge that narrowed and limited freedom, then this last project represents his effort to take back that freedom by redefining it in terms of care of the self. Foucault always stressed that modern power functions by producing individual subjects. This book shows how his excavation of ancient philosophical practices gave him the tools to counter this function-with a practice of self-formation, an askesis.
About the Author
Edward F. McGushin is assistant professor of philosophy at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Book Information
ISBN 9780810122833
Author Edward F. McGushin
Format Paperback
Page Count 380
Imprint Northwestern University Press
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Weight(grams) 620g