Ethical Self & Christian Confession (Foucault)

[alice wellintown]

Are you gonna tell her, Reefer? Cyp?

Foucault's final engagement with traditional philosophy arises from
the rather surprising turn toward the ancient world he took in the
last few years of his life. The History of Sexuality had been planned
as a multi-volume work on various themes in a study of modern
sexuality. The first volume, discussed above, was a general
introduction. Foucault wrote, but never published, a second volume
(The Confessions of the Flesh) that dealt with the origins of the
modern notion of the subject in the practices of Christian confession.
His concern was that a proper understanding of the Christian
development required a comparison with ancient conceptions of the
ethical self, something he undertook in his last two books (1984) on
Greek and Roman sexuality: The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the
Self .

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/