Foucault’s care-of-the-self ethics cannot be grasped through liberal-humanist frameworks.

Evidence

Who is the ethical subject of humanism? The misadventures of international communism might teach us something about the violent consequences of imposing the most fragile part of Marx, the predictive Eurocentric scenario, upon large parts of the globe not historically centered in Europe. … I will suggest (a) that it might be useful to give the proper names to Foucault and Derrida in to each other, although such a move would not be endorsed by either; and (b) that the current critical possibility for Foucault’s ethics of the care of the self cannot be understood from within liberal humanism, or through calls for alternatives that remind us that they are appropriate only to liberal democracies and/or postindustrial societies of the North Atlantic model. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1148