Askesis and the logic of the spiral

This essay sets out to demonstrate a strong connection between eros and askesis in Foucault’s writings. Analogous to Huffer’s argument about eros, I suggest that askesis does not invoke a return to an imagined Greek past, but operates generatively to destabilize subjectivity and normativity. Askesis...

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Auteur principal: Hamner, M. Gail (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2016
Dans: Theology & sexuality
Année: 2016, Volume: 22, Numéro: 3, Pages: 143-154
Sujets non-standardisés:B Askesis
B Huffer
B Liberation
B Foucault
B Forme
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Édition parallèle:Électronique
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Résumé:This essay sets out to demonstrate a strong connection between eros and askesis in Foucault’s writings. Analogous to Huffer’s argument about eros, I suggest that askesis does not invoke a return to an imagined Greek past, but operates generatively to destabilize subjectivity and normativity. Askesis is central to Foucault’s methodology and, indeed, askesis and eros, two terms that Huffer depicts as “strange” and “untranslatable,” are both requisite for the projects of political, social, and personal liberation toward which Foucault labored.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contient:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1329883