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