Foucault and Transformation: A Genealogy of "Political Spirituality"

Foucault develops “political spirituality” out of the specific conjunction of place, time, knowledge (_savoir_) and practice that was the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. This paper offers a genealogy of political spirituality by disarticulating this conjunction and seeking the emergence of its specific facets through earlier terms within Foucault’s _œuvre_. Specifically, the paper traces a genealogy of “political spirituality” through a handful of concepts: life, the outside and unthought, experience, and the genealogical method.