ABSTRACT
The post-Fordist virtuoso subject, together with the spiritual techniques exerted to generate and perpetuate this subject, have indeed notable intersections with the late Foucauldian notion of Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment spirituality. As Foucault highlights time and again, this is precisely what happened under Christianity, when it espoused numerous ascetic techniques as well as codes of sexual conduct from pre-Christian, Greco-Roman culture, partly modified them, and exerted these to the ends of pastoral guidance and obedience, discordant with the Greco-Roman virtue of activeness and self-sufficiency. The Hellenistic-Roman/Enlightenment model of politics resembles a valuable and rare medicine or therapeutic cure in the possession of only a minority.
