Notes
Notes
1 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1, trans. G. Long, revised (Mineola: Dover, 1997) 8.
2 John Sellars has pointed out to me that the original Greek title of the Meditations was, in fact, tôn eis heauton, which is translated as “to himself.”
3 Meditations 4.37 (Dover edn, 25).
4 “Philosophy as a Way of Life,” in Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault, trans. Michael Chase, ed. Arnold Davidson (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995) 265. Hadot has a more extended discussion of Aurelius's thought in The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2001).
5 The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981–1982, trans. Graham Burchell, ed. Frédéric Gros (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) 292.
6 “Spiritual Exercises,” in Philosophy as a Way of Life 82.
7 The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism (University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995).
8 “Reflections on the Idea of the ‘Cultivation of the Self,’ ” in Philosophy as a Way of Life 211.
9 The Foucault Reader, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: Pantheon, 1984) 350.
10 The Use of Pleasure, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985) 8.
11 Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Random House, 1978) 193.
12 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (New York: Random House, 1978) 19.
13 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 104.
14 The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 157.
15 Published by Indiana UP, in 1999.
16 “Practicing Criticism,” an interview with Didier Eribon, trans. Alan Sheridan, in Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture, ed. Lawrence Kritzman (New York: Routledge, 1988) 156.
17 “Self Writing,” in Ethics: Truth and Subjectivity, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: The New Press, 1997) 207–22, at 209. As I remarked above, however, we must bear in mind that Foucault's approach to the idea of “truth” is very different from that of the ancients.
18 “Reflection on the Idea of the ‘Cultivation of the Self,’ ” 211.
19 See my The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism (cited above).
20 “Philosophy as a Way of Life” 272.
21 Meditations 12.4 (Dover edn, 94).
22 I would like to thank John Sellars for his careful reading and detailed comments on an earlier draft of this piece.