File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1996/f_Jan1.96, message 35


From: Ed Knudson <eknudson-AT-casconn.com>
Subject: Re: ethics and poststructuralism
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 01:02:14 PST


In Technologies of the Self I was struck by a phrase used by Foucault, the
"practice of liberty." The focus is an activity, not a state of being. It
came to mind as I read Erik's comment below.  Ed K.

At 08:36 PM 1/17/96 -0600, you wrote in part:
> His ethics, in short, become one of 
>stylization of the self, of creating a critical ethos with which one 
>confronts power/knowledge, and one's social construction.
>
>Erik
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