About the book: 2007 / Taking Plato’s dialogue “Alcibiades” (Alcibiades I) as the starting point of analysis, Michel Foucault in a published course of lectures examines the ancient “culture of self” I— 11th centuries n. as a philosophical asceticism, or an ensemble of practices formed under the sign of the ancient imperative of “self-care.” The long-range aim of such an installation is the complete “genealogy” of the new European subject, restored within the framework of Foucault’s declared “critical ontology of ourselves.” We are talking about the history of a subject who constitutes himself to a much greater extent, by resorting to the appropriate techniques of himself, sanctioned by this or that culture, than is constituted by the techniques of the master (Power) or discursive techniques (Knowledge), in connection with which the question of our current situation is - this is not a problem of liberation, but a practice of freedom..