Ori Rotlevy, Askesis, Critique, and Tradition: Foucault and Benjamin. Lecture on Soundcloud, October 2019 Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of California, Berkeley A central concept in Foucault’s later work is Askesis: an exercise of oneself, related to self-mastery and self-transformation. The concept of “ascetic schooling” in the foreword to Benjamin’s Origin of the …