ABSTRACT
It is Wilhelm Halbfass who adapted this concept of therapeutics to the discursive space of the Eastern, and in particular, to the Indian thought. In contemporary times, we find Jonardon Ganeri making interludes into the same, but by making departures from both Foucault and Halbfass. The effort though laudable is ailing due to certain limitations emanating from its narrow focus upon the classical Indian philosophical systems in Sanskrit, tailor-made to develop logical forms of argumentative reasoning. This chapter is a close reading of Foucault's and Ganeri's paradigms of therapeutics in conjunction with conjectures on ‘biopolitics’ emerging in the wake of postcolonial thinking. The illuminative exegesis of forms of care as practices in self-formation that Foucault furnishes is evidently ailing from paucity of examples from the non-Western traditions of care and therapeutics. Nonetheless, its directive force lies in its ensemble of critical tonality invoking alternative departures in ethos. The following exegesis is inspired by this intersectional point of departure.
