New Books in Religion · New Books Network
Daniel Wyche, "The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other: From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation" (Columbia UP, 2025)
January 17, 2026·1 hr 17 min·5 clips
Wyche argues that personal ethics alone can't drive political change without systemic organization and material analysis.
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A serious interview about self-transformation and political possibility.
Daniel Weisch's interview asks what it means to treat care of the self as political practice. It moves patiently through Foucault and the idea that self-transformation can reach into the social forces and relations of power that shape people.
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