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 (Note the year, 1982. Foucault died in 1984. He was giving lectures in a College de France course entitled “The courage of the truth” ([1984] 2011) right up until he became too ill to work. 😢)
-In his later years, Foucault wanted to write a **“history of the different ways in our culture that humans develop knowledge about themselves”** (Foucault [1982] 2000, 224)
+In his later years, Foucault said he wanted to write a **“history of the different ways in our culture that humans develop knowledge about themselves”** (Foucault [1982] 2000, 224)
 ===== Mahmood’s alternative to the liberal public sphere =====
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   * Foundational exclusions of the public sphere
   * The possibility of transgressing the boundary of public and private
+===== Tutorial agenda: Steps to the final essay =====
+==== Writing your final essay ====
+* The rest of this semester is a series of steps to developing your final essay.
+* Your presentation on your essay. [[https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/64258/assignments/593074|Book your time slot]].
+* An essay has an [[:the_quest:building_an_argument|argument for a thesis]]
+  - In this class, you are making a claim about another scholar's claims: it's a "meta" paper
+==== Foucault gives us a "warrant"—let's use it ====
+* Question: Why do women of the mosque movement pray (and behave piously)? They don't "have to." No one is making them do it.
+* Foucault says that ethics is "care of the self"
+  * Apply this warrant to the ethnographic facts on pages 833, 840, and throughout Mahmood's 2001 article on public piety.
+==== What would Mahmood say? ====
+* What would be Mahmood's take on disputes about mosques amplifying or turning down the *adhan*?
 ===== References and further reading =====