The Politics of Self-Overcoming:

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" The Politics of Self-Overcoming: "
Wyche, Daniel Louis Davidson, Arnold I.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1113752
Doc. No	:	TLpq2385710413
Main Entry	:	Davidson, Arnold I.
	:	Wyche, Daniel Louis
Title & Author	:	The Politics of Self-Overcoming:\ Wyche, Daniel LouisDavidson, Arnold I.
College	:	The University of Chicago
Date	:	2020
student score	:	2020
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	348
Abstract	:	This dissertation develops the underspecified political consequences of what I call the category of practices of ethical self-overcoming. This grouping consists in Michel Foucault’s ethics of the care of the self; Pierre Hadot’s “spiritual exercises;” what the French sociologist of labor Georges Friedmann calls the “interior effort;” and what Martin Luther King Jr. refers to as the work of “self-purification” integral to direct action. I define this category as exercises intentionally taken up in order to bring about an ethical transformation within practicing subjects. I argue that these conceptions are each vulnerable to what Friedmann calls political “moralism,” wherein the political lives of groups and systems amount to the mere aggregation of individual ethical behavior.
Subject	:	Georges Friedmann
	:	Martin Luther King Jr.
	:	Michel Foucault
	:	Pierre Hadot
	:	Religion
	:	Spiritual exercises