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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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Theology & sexuality
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 143-154 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Asceticism
/ Eros (Concept of)
/ Huffer, Lynne 1960-
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCF Sexual ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Askesis
B Form B Huffer B Foucault B Liberation |
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Volltext (doi) |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1355-8358 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1329883 |