Critique and the care of the self : the economy of truth and government in Michel Foucault's late work

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 as marking an ethical turn, away from the explicit political stakes of his earlier works, this book articulates the continuities between his engagement with antiquity and political events in his own present. Beginning with a reinterpretation of the question of early and late style in Foucault’s oeuvre, this ...