But let me switch gears here to make another point about how certain works by Foucault might possibly serve as spiritual exercises for would-be searchers interested in Foucault.
The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawler and John Nale (2014; paperback ed., 2020) contains 91 entries in terms in Foucault's publications and additional entries on proper names that are important in Foucault's publication. Each entry includes embedded parenthetical references to certain publications by Foucault, and, at the end, cross-references to related entries.
I personally do not find all of the 91 entries about terms of equal interest, and I suspect that most would-be searchers interested in Foucault would not either. So one way to proceed is to read entries that strike you as interesting and read the recommended cross-reference entries as well until you begin to form a sense of what terms in Foucault's publications most interest you. Those are probably Foucault's publications that might work for you as spiritual exercises.
And what are you looking for in the spiritual exercises? As Stanley suggests, motivational impacts. Not just momentary. But enduring and sustaining over time. Good luck with that.
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