Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:27:35 +0000 From: sam binkley <sbinkley-AT-octet.com> Subject: Re: hadot and foucault M.A. King: Thanks for the tip. This must be the same commentary by Davidson that appears in "Foucault and the Writing of History", called "Ethics as Aesthetics: Foucault, the History of Ethics and Ancient Thought". In this piece davidson tries to deflect hadot's charge that foucault drastically misread the stoics, insisting that foucault's objectives were just a little different: on the question of aesthetics, davidson quotes hadot: "I fear a fear a new form of dandyism, a version for the end of the 20th century". Davidson counters by distinguishing between; "a way of life and a style of life", though I haven't quite sorted out the difference between these two yet. sb wrote: > > Maybe you already know this, but there's a (very good) piece by Davidson > on Foucault and Hadot in the _Cambridge Companion to Foucault_. Davidson > argues, and I think he's right, that Hadot is mistaken when he claims that > Foucault's ethics boils down to aesthetics. > > Matthew > > ----Matthew A. King------Department of Philosophy------McMaster University---- > "The border is often narrow between a permanent temptation to commit > suicide and the birth of a certain form of political consciousness." > -----------------------------(Michel Foucault)--------------------------------
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