Time for Foucault? Reflections on the Roman Self from Seneca to Augustine

The essay approaches the idea of the self as this was most often formulated in antiquity from Heraclitus to Augustine—not as the object of self-fashioning and self-care, but as an irresolvable problem that was a productive if disconcerting source of inquiry. The self is less cultivated than it is “u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James I. Porter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CBS Open Journals 2017-01-01
Series:Foucault Studies
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Online Access:https://192.168.7.24:443/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/5247