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From: darcy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Stephen D'Arcy)
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Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
> anyone can point me to the best place to learn Foucault's
> views on the self -- what kind of thing it is (and isn't).
> Is there a book, chapter, or article, by Foucault or
> someone else, that summarizes this?
> Bill Clark
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Foucault's clearest expression of his own views on the self is -- in
my opinion -- in a late interview (January 1984) called "The Ethic of
Care for the Self as a Practice of Freedom." Of course, this
presents Foucault's "late" views on the self, which if nothing else
has a different emphasis than his earlier views. It appears in THE
FINAL FOUCAULT, and (in a different translation) in FOUCAULT LIVE.
A good secondary article on the theme is "Making Up People" by Ian
Hacking, which discusses Foucault a little bit, but is more generally
concerned with articulating a "Foucaultian" account of the so-called
"social construction" of "kinds of person" (e.g., "pervert", "multiple
personality", or "waiter").
Steve D.