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This chapter focuses on Michel Foucault’s late studies (in the early eighties, until his death), on issues of the art of living (tekhne tou biou, un art de vivre) and aesthetics of existence (l’esthétique de l’existence). I intend to show how, in these studies, the issues of terror and fear—as well as their “opposite pole,” courage and audacity—occupy a central political significance for Foucault.
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Siisiäinen, L. (2008). Terrorized by Sound?. In: Hyvärinen, M., Muszynski, L. (eds) Terror and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614130_13
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