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The Puritanistic Protestantism, You Know?
Foucault's work is an attempt at a dialectical synthesis of Puritanism and hedonism. The journals of the New England Puritans are constantly kind of monitoring their every waking moment for evidence of sort of sin or predestination, right? So it really does have this kind of Puritanical quality, right? And so it's this weird, as I said, try to get both worlds together.