@inbook{2f2969eef9504cf395da6e1711868075,
title = "The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics",
abstract = "The chapter by Lemm analyzes Foucault{\textquoteright}s return to the Socratic practice of philosophy by focusing on the most extreme of the Socratic schools, namely, the Cynics. Lemm reads into Foucault{\textquoteright}s fascination with the Cynics the traces left in his thinking by Nietzsche{\textquoteright}s problem of how much truth can be incorporated or embodied in a life. Cynic philosophy, for Lemm, presents itself as the most radical reduction of bios to zoe in order to unleash both the immunitary and the communitary resources of embodiment. According to Lemm, Foucault saw in the Cynic form of life an experiment to unite life (zoe) and philosophy so as to make possible a form of life (bios) that resists the very idea of a government of life.",
keywords = "Foucault, Socratic practice, philosophy, Cynics, Nietzsche, Embodiment, Zoe, Philosophical Life, Community",
author = "Vanessa Lemm",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.5422/fordham/9780823255962.003.0012",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780823255962",
pages = "208--223",
booktitle = "The government of life",
publisher = "Fordham University Press",
}