Le Souci de soi
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Le Souci de soi is Michel Foucault’s third volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how individuals in Greco-Roman antiquity fashioned an ethical relationship to themselves through practices of self-care.
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Target entity: Le Souci de soi Context triple: [The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self, originalTitle, Le Souci de soi]
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La Réjouissance
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Le Bon Sens
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Portrait d’une Femme
"Portrait d’une Femme" is a modernist poem by Ezra Pound that offers a psychologically complex portrayal of a cosmopolitan woman and her fragmented cultural identity.
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L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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Les Matinaux
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Target entity: Le Souci de soi Target entity description: Le Souci de soi is Michel Foucault’s third volume of *The History of Sexuality*, in which he analyzes how individuals in Greco-Roman antiquity fashioned an ethical relationship to themselves through practices of self-care.
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A.
La Réjouissance
La Réjouissance is a jubilant, celebratory movement from George Frideric Handel’s orchestral suite Music for the Royal Fireworks, known for its triumphant, dance-like character.
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B.
Le Bon Sens
Le Bon Sens is an 18th-century philosophical work by Baron d'Holbach that presents a rigorous materialist and atheist critique of religion and superstition.
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C.
Portrait d’une Femme
"Portrait d’une Femme" is a modernist poem by Ezra Pound that offers a psychologically complex portrayal of a cosmopolitan woman and her fragmented cultural identity.
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D.
L’Œuvre
L’Œuvre is a naturalist novel by Émile Zola that portrays the struggles of an ambitious painter in Paris whose obsessive pursuit of artistic perfection leads to personal and professional ruin.
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E.
Les Matinaux
Les Matinaux is a celebrated poetry collection by French poet René Char, known for its dense, lyrical style and its reflections on resistance, freedom, and the postwar human condition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophy book ⓘ work on ethics ⓘ |
| author | Michel Foucault NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| discusses |
ethical relations to pleasure
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philosophical schools of antiquity ⓘ practices of self-examination ⓘ regimens of diet and sexuality ⓘ |
| examines |
Greco-Roman philosophical practices
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ancient practices of self-mastery ⓘ relations between ethics and subjectivity ⓘ |
| explores |
ethical self-formation
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technologies of the self ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
classical studies
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ethics ⓘ gender and sexuality studies ⓘ history of ideas ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod |
Hellenistic period
NERFINISHED
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Roman Imperial period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | The Use of Pleasure NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralConcept |
aesthetics of existence
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askesis (ascetic practices) ⓘ epimeleia heautou (care of the self) ⓘ |
| hasEnglishTitle | The Care of the Self NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
care of the body and soul
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formation of ethical subjectivity ⓘ relation between truth and self ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
Greco-Roman antiquity
NERFINISHED
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care of the self ⓘ ethics of the self ⓘ history of sexuality ⓘ self-care practices ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | The History of Sexuality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
continental philosophy
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post-structuralism ⓘ |
| precedes | none (final volume of original trilogy) ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
The Hermeneutics of the Subject
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The Use of Pleasure NERFINISHED ⓘ The Will to Knowledge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesOrdinal | third volume ⓘ |
| setInIntellectualContext | late work of Michel Foucault ⓘ |
| volumeNumber | 3 ⓘ |
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