Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault by Michel Foucault
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Right in line with my professional interests for research, this book was an enlightening and inspiring look into Foucault’s final line of inquiry. Tracing the geneology of the care of the self, Foucault and other contributors shed light on how ancient practices and conceptions of the self have evolved. I would definitely recommend this to anyone with general curiosity or research interests in contemplative pedagogy or Foucault himself, though certainly it stands better with complementary reading —Michel Foucault: Key Concepts, edited by Dianna Taylor, was my first and best introduction to technologies of the self.