The constitution of the subject in the investigation of the late Foucault is generally dealt with through the perspective of his aesthetics of existence. Such approach is mainly due to the reading of the two last volumes of The History of Sexuality (1984). However, the present article points out that in his Collège de France courses entitled Subjectivity and Truth (1981) and The Hermeneutics of the Subject (1982), a different reading can be elaborated. The relation between subjectivity and truth is evidently central in his thinking and its developments are presented from the differences established between philosophy and spirituality, from the articulations between care of the self and knowledge of the self, useful knowledge and useless knowledge, care of the self and conversion to the self, asceticism and truth.
Subjectivity; Truth; Asceticism; Knowledge of the self; Care of the self