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Author Nilson, Herman, 1965-

Title Michel Foucault and the games of truth / Herman Nilson ; translated by Rachel Clark.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Description xv, 159 p. ; 22 cm.
Note Translated from German manuscript.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-153) and index.
Contents The art of temperance -- Different perspectives -- The pleasures as ethical substance -- Askesis as existential exercise -- Self-assay and the stylistics of life -- Dietetics -- Asymmetrical relationships -- Sexuality and truth -- Dream criticism as a technique of life -- The cultivation of the self -- "Counter-Alexanders": pleasure in oneself -- Politics as ethos -- The body's reason -- Lifestyles in conflict -- The role of power -- The project of the genealogies -- Genealogy as diagnosis of the present -- Genealogy as an historical ontology -- Genealogy as a transformative experiment -- Modernity as an attitude -- The care of the truth -- The parrhesiastic scene -- Socrates' irony, Diogenes' trickery -- Technologies of the self -- Aesthetics of existence -- Polymorphous relationships -- On friendship -- I, Nietzsche -- Nietzsche's physiosophy -- Friendship and self-care.
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Contributions in philosophy of life.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Histoire de la sexualite.
Sex customs -- History.
Ethics, Ancient.
Life.
ISBN 0312212976

 
    
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