{"title":"A Self-Interested Reader? Foucault and Imperial Greek Technical Texts","authors":"Claire Hall","doi":"10.1353/are.2023.a917339","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This article examines Foucault's <i>Le Souci de soi</i>: while purporting to be a work on sexuality, it is also about the formation of the self and the relationship of subjectivity with claims to truth. I argue that Foucault's use of imperial Greek medical and technical texts connected the ancient world to his own background in the history of medicine and psychoanalysis. By reading medical and technical texts both on sexuality and on selfhood, Foucault examined not just what philosophy dictated about these topics but how its ideologies of sexuality and self were—in practice—translated into adjacent fields of knowledge.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":44750,"journal":{"name":"ARETHUSA","volume":"279 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARETHUSA","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/are.2023.a917339","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This article examines Foucault's Le Souci de soi: while purporting to be a work on sexuality, it is also about the formation of the self and the relationship of subjectivity with claims to truth. I argue that Foucault's use of imperial Greek medical and technical texts connected the ancient world to his own background in the history of medicine and psychoanalysis. By reading medical and technical texts both on sexuality and on selfhood, Foucault examined not just what philosophy dictated about these topics but how its ideologies of sexuality and self were—in practice—translated into adjacent fields of knowledge.
摘要:本文研究了福柯的《Le Souci de soi》：这本书虽然自称是一部关于性的著作，但同时也是关于自我的形成以及主体性与真理诉求之间的关系。我认为，福柯对希腊帝国医学和技术文本的使用将古代世界与他自身的医学史和精神分析背景联系起来。通过阅读关于性和自我的医学和技术文献，福柯不仅研究了哲学对这些主题的规定，还研究了哲学关于性和自我的意识形态是如何在实践中转化为邻近的知识领域的。
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Arethusa is known for publishing original literary and cultural studies of the ancient world and of the field of classics that combine contemporary theoretical perspectives with more traditional approaches to literary and material evidence. Interdisciplinary in nature, this distinguished journal often features special thematic issues.
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