(1) Didier Eribon's Michel Foucault, translated from the French by Betsy Wing (Harvard University Press, 1991; orig. French ed., 1989);
(2) James Miller's The Passion of Michel Foucault (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993);
(3) David Macey's The Lives of Michel Foucault (New York: Pantheon Books, 1994).
In any event, my listing of Horujy's source material roughly a quarter of a century after Foucault's death suggests that his thought in the late period (1980-1984) was very much in the process of evolving beyond his earlier thought. However, when Horujy writes about Foucault's late thought, he focuses his discussions with laser-like precision. Consequently, his book is a closely reasoned philosophical treatise about Foucault's late thought. I find Horujy's intricate discussions fascinating to follow, but I would not describe his book as easily accessible.
Now, as the subtitle of Horujy's book notes, he speaks and writes in the tradition of Eastern Christian discourse. In both Eastern Christian discourse and Western Christian discourse, the optimal form of what Horujy refers to as personal synergic development is known as deification (pages 57, 104, 109, 114, 116, 131, 150, and 157).
For further discussion of the inner psychological process of deification, see the following books:
M. David Litwa's Becoming Divine: An Introduction to Deification in Western Culture (Eugene, Oregon [USA]: Cascade Books/ Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013).
Litwa's Desiring Divinity: Self-Deification in Early Jewish and Christian Mythmaking (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Litwa's Iesus Deus: The Early Christian Depiction of Jesus as a Mediterranean God (Minneapolis, Minnesota [USA]: Fortress Press, 2014).
Litwa's We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul's Soteriology (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2012).
Norman Russell's The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Eloi Leclerc's The Canticle of Creatures: Symbols of Union: An analysis of St. Francis of Assisi, translated from the French by Matthew J. O'Connell (Chicago, Illinois [USA]: Franciscan Herald Press, 1977; orig. French ed., 1970).
Anna N. Williams' The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas (Oxford University Press, 1999).
Bernhard Blankenhorn's The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (Washington, D.C. [USA]: Catholic University of America Press, 2015).
Daria Spezzano's The Glory of God's Grace: Deification According to St. Thomas Aquinas (Ave Maria, Florida [USA]: Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2015; distributed by the Catholic University of America Press).
Adam G. Cooper's Naturally Human, Supernaturally God: Deification in Pre-Conciliar Catholicism (Minneapolis, Minnesota [USA]: Fortress Press, 2014).
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