Asceticism and the Care of the Self: Self-Control and Self-Expression

Reading

Foucault, “The Body” (in: The Care of the Self)

Background: 

Plato, Phaedrus; Foucault, The Use of Pleasure

Recommended: 

Hadot, “Reflections on the Idea of the Cultivation of the Self” (in Philosophy as a Way of Life) 

Flynn, “Philosophy as a Way of Life: Foucault and Hadot” 

Miller, “The Art of Self-Fashioning”