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Ästhetik der Existenz
Schriften zur Lebenskunst
2007
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In der letzten Phase seines Schaffens hat sich Michel Foucault mit Passion und Akribie dem Studium antiker Texte gewidmet und die klassischen Modelle einer lebenspraktischen »Sorge um sich« und »Ästhetik der Existenz« der historischen Vergessenheit entrissen. In den kleinen Texten und Interviews derselben Zeit, die der Auswahlband versammelt, unternimmt Foucault den riskanten und faszinierenden Versuch einer Aktualisierung dieser antiken Denkfiguren. Die alles entscheidende Frage für Foucault ist dabei: Kann es heute eine Lebensform geben, die nicht vom Wissen und von der Norm bestimmt wird, sondern die ein Experiment ist und das Leben als Kunst versteht?
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," but before he was Professor at University of Tunis, Tunisia, and then Professor at University Paris VIII. He lectured at several different Universities over the world as at the University at Buffalo, the University of California, Berkeley and University of São Paulo, University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His writings on power, knowledge, and discourse have been widely influential in academic circles. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the poststructuralist and postmodernist labels later attributed to him, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Immanuel Kant. Foucault's project was particularly influenced by Nietzsche, his "genealogy of knowledge" being a direct allusion to Nietzsche's "genealogy of morality". In a late interview he definitively stated: "I am a Nietzschean." Foucault was listed as the most cited scholar in the humanities in 2007 by the ISI Web of Science.

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