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Michel Foucault: The Cultivation of the Self

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) spent much of the later part of his studies on the idea of the care of the self and cultivation of the self. He defined such care as using one’s own reason to ascertain who one is and how he can be his best. Foucault takes several perspectives on this t ....

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.... are also essential to understanding and controlling “normal” individuals. This practice is always executed by power. Therefore, who we are is itself the result of the exercise of this power. In this sense, power serves as the other side of knowledge. For Foucault, power produces knowledge and each one directly implies the other. It is impossible for power to be exercised without knowledge, and it is impossible for knowledge not to procure power. “There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor a ....

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