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[…*] I WOULD HAVE LIKED to finish today what I began last week, that is to say the Cynic reversal of the themes of the true life. We have tried to see how the practice of the true life, when it is pushed to its extreme consequence in the Cynics, and dramatized in a number of forms, becomes the scandalous manifestation of the other life. And this change, this turning round, this transformation of the true life into other life seems to me to have been the source and heart of the Cynic scandal.
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Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (2011). 21 March 1984. In: Gros, F., Ewald, F., Fontana, A. (eds) The Courage of the Truth (The Government of Self and Others II). Michel Foucault. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230309104_15
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