Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance, Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne, Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne

Author

Cynthia Skenazi

Year

2013

Publisher

Brill

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

10-Feb-2026

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nThe Use of Pleasure and in his lectures at the Collège de France on theHermeneutics of the Subject , Foucault studied different practices associated with the care of the self. For the intellectual male elite of Greek and Roman Antiquity, to know oneself was founded upon the pragmatic commitment to take care of oneself.¹ The Platonic dialogues mark a pivotal moment since the care of the self became inseparable from the Delphic imperative of knowing oneself: in order to take care of oneself properly, Socrates tells his interlocutor, one must know oneself, that is one must know how to...