Critique and the Care of the Self

The Economy of Truth and Government in Michel Foucault's Late Work

von Karl Katz Lydén

266 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How can we understand Foucault's work on ancient philosophy,and its practices of truth-telling and technologies of the self?While this late phase in Foucault's thought has often been seen asmarking an ethical turn, away from the explicit political stakes ofhis earlier works, this book articulates the continuities between hisengagement with antiquity and political events in his own present.Beginning with a reinterpretation of the question of early andlate style in Foucault's oeuvre, this investigation provides carefulreadings of his lectures at the Collège de France, showing howthe care of the self - the style of existence - unfolds as a criticalproject. With the notion of the subject developed in Foucault'slate work, the ancient practices of truth-telling can be articulatedwith modern economic government, introducing a radically newunderstanding of the concept of critique.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Philosophie
• ISBN: 9789189504806
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2024
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Södertörn University