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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Main Author: Hamner, M. Gail (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2016
In: Theology & sexuality
Year: 2016, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 143-154
Further subjects:B Askesis
B Form
B Huffer
B Liberation
B Foucault
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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.
ISSN:1745-5170
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2017.1329883