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Author McGushin, Edward F.

Title Foucault's askēsis : an introduction to the philosophical life / Edward F. McGushin
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 347 pages)
Series Topics in historical philosophy
Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Philosophy as Care of the Self; 1 Truth as a Problem; 2 The Socratic Moment; 3 The Poetics of the Subject; 4 The Cynic and the True Life; Part 2. Care of the Self and Parrehsia in the Age of Reason; 5 Foucault's Cartesian Meditations; 6 The Prince and the Pastor: Figures of Power, Care, and Parrhesia ; 7 Rage for Order: The Advent of Biopower; 8 Toward a Critique of the Present; Conclusion: A New Poetics of Philosophy; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-339) and index
Notes English
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Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Philosophy, Ancient.
Self (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Philosophy, Ancient
Self (Philosophy)
Zelf.
Klassieke oudheid.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810161559
0810161559