From what seems to me Foucault’s rewritten introduction to the History of Sexuality, still as the second volume, around 1981. We can see MF’s obsession with the elephant in this draft
“Tout cela constituait un art, une techne qui avait pour objet ‘la vie’ elle-même, entendue comme l’existence individuelle & sociale, comme le rapport permanent à soi même & aux autres. Techne peri bion, selon une expression courante, et dont lesLatins parlent comme d’une recta vivendi ratio.”
– Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, Fonds Foucault, NAF 28730, 87.15.439.
“This all constituted an art, a techne taking for its object “life” itself understood as individual & social existence, as the permanent relation to self & others. Techne peri bion, according to an expression, which the Latins called a recta vivendi ratio”
Photo credits to this piece on MF in 1981 TIME with Simeon Wade and Michael Stoneman. http://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum42/philosopher.pdf
Better quality image from Stuart Elden at https://progressivegeographies.com/2014/12/23/foucault-and-simeon-wade-and-the-elusive-chez-foucault-publication/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1GkhcxPynoU-2dGxq7O4Nk6Ky0wfouzI29obuxJ4V9N5EL3ENuFjnUlBI_aem_wa8hEaFe18Blwz2pW9PU5Q