Technologies of the Self

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Technologies of the Self are "which permit individuals to effect by their own means or with the help of others a certain number of operations on their own bodies and souls, thoughts, conduct, and way of being, so as to transform I themselves in order to attain a certain state of happiness, purity, wisdom, perfection, or immortality."[1]

Foucault

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Syncretic Terms

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Notes

Footnotes

  1. Foucault, Michele. “Technologies of the Self.” In Technologies of the Self, edited by Luther H Martin, Huck Gutman, and Patrick H Hutton, 16–49. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. p. 18.