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The purpose of this paper is to explore some fundamental ideas of Foucault on the listening in an anthrpological horizon. In the introduction, the author provide social and scientific circumstances which could legitimate the motivation of this work. There are three crucial sites which are the obliged points of passage to seize the question of listening in the thoughts of Foucault. Firstly, the concept of technology or culture of the self might be mentioned. In fact, the listening is one of the activities practiced to attain the care of the self. Secondly, the grec notion of ‘askesis’ should be understood to get a complete vision of the anthropological meaning of the listening. In this context, Foucault focused on the stoic tradition which represents a particular horizon of the culture of the self insisting on the notion of askesis. Thirdly, the question of listening could be situated in the context of advice in general. In fact, Foucault described in some detail the situation of advice from the philosopher to the governor who might know the ways of listening. In fact, the listening is a counterpart of the discourse and makes it possible.