"These lectures certainly indicate the continuities in Foucault's thought from the genealogical analyses of the 1970s, principally
Discipline and Punish and
The History of Sexuality, with his later studies associated with the care of the self. The publishers of this volume have provided a fluid and carefully annotated transcription of four texts that deepen our understanding of Foucault's idiosyncratic use of ancient ethics and what he thought we might learn from it."
– "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"