To make homage to the person and to the work of M. Foucault, we can take several ways. This paper elects two. The first way concerns Foucault's style, his exposure style, precisely. Foucault seems to have a very generous writing style and, especially in his lectures at the Collège de France, a generous style of exposure. This paper intent to recapture that generosity and its components. The second way concerns a problem or a concept, the self-formation or the self-formation practices. Foucault's analysis of certain reading technics and writing technics of the Hellenistic philosophy tradition seems to throw in it an original and unique light.
Self-formation; generosity; virtue; application; reflection; posture