BSU bulletin. Philosophy
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, SELF-NURTURING AS A PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR GLAMOUR: M. FOUCAULT’S EXPERIENCE // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2020. №1. . - С. 39-48.
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SELF-NURTURING AS A PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR GLAMOUR: M. FOUCAULT’S EXPERIENCE
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The article is aimed to answer the question: “Is glamour a modern form of self-nurturing, or only claims to be it? To find out if this is so, we have explicated the anthropological and social value of self-nurturing practice and revealed its key characteristics. The study of the concept of “self-nurturing” is carried out on the basis of post-structuralist method- ology, mainly as worded by M. Foucault. The analysis is carried out to identify the com- mon ground in the characteristics of the phenomenon of glamour and the concept of “self-care”. Attempts to study the historical genesis of the concept of “glamour” inevitably lead to an ancient value system, in particular, to an analysis of the category “epimileia” (self- nurturing). As a result, it has been found that glamour as an actual form of self-nurturing includes a whole range of practices that have a structure and rules. Like antique care, glamour is both a duty (a certain standard of attitude to society and one’s fundamental ob- ligation to his/herself), and a technique – a method of making oneself proper, knowledge that underlies a set of principles to live by, and a combination of body-oriented proce- dures.
The proposed analysis is adequate to modern trends in social sciences, meets the public request for clarification of the actual mechanisms of subjectivation through building the relationship of a person with his own physicality, and can be a methodological prerequi- site for further study of the relationship between the phenomenon of “glamour” and the concept of “self-nurturing”. The results of the study may be included in the courses on so- cial philosophy and cultural studies.
The proposed analysis is adequate to modern trends in social sciences, meets the public request for clarification of the actual mechanisms of subjectivation through building the relationship of a person with his own physicality, and can be a methodological prerequi- site for further study of the relationship between the phenomenon of “glamour” and the concept of “self-nurturing”. The results of the study may be included in the courses on so- cial philosophy and cultural studies.
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self-nurturing; glamour; epimileia; subjectivity; body techniques; aesthetics of existence; practices of true speech; ascetic practices.
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