Foucault S Critical Ethics

Author : Richard A. Lynch
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823271269

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Foucault's Critical Ethics by Richard A. Lynch Pdf

The central thesis of Foucault’s Critical Ethics is that Foucault’s account of power does not foreclose the possibility of ethics; on the contrary, it provides a framework within which ethics becomes possible. Tracing the evolution of Foucault’s analysis of power from his early articulations of disciplinary power to his theorizations of biopower and governmentality, Richard A. Lynch shows how Foucault’s ethical project emerged through two interwoven trajectories: analysis of classical practices of the care of the self, and engaged practice in and reflection upon the limits of sexuality and the development of friendship in gay communities. These strands of experience and inquiry allowed Foucault to develop contrasting yet interwoven aspects of his ethics; they also underscored how ethical practice emerges within and from contexts of power relations. The gay community’s response to AIDS and its parallels with the feminist ethics of care serve to illustrate the resources of a Foucauldian ethic—a fundamentally critical attitude, with substantive (but revisable) values and norms grounded in a practice of freedom.

Author : Mark Olssen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781526156594

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Constructing Foucault's ethics by Mark Olssen Pdf

In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely used throughout the world, Michel Foucault established the basis upon which a new ethics can be constructed. This is the thesis that Mark Olssen advances in Constructing Foucault’s ethics. Olssen not only ‘speaks truth’ to existing moral and ethical theories that have dominated western philosophy since Plato, but also shows how, by using Foucault’s insights, an alternative ethical and moral theory can be established that both avoids the pitfalls of postmodern relativism and simultaneously grounds ethical, moral, and political discourse for the present age. Taking the late ‘ethical turn’ in the philosopher’s thought as its starting point, this ambitious study seeks to construct an ethics beyond anything Foucault ever attempted while remaining consistent with his core postulates. In doing so it advances the concept of ‘life continuance’, which expresses a normative orientation to the future in terms of the quest for survival and well-being, giving rise to irreducible normative values as part of the discursive order of events. This approach is explored in contrast with a range of other, established systems, from the Kantian to the Marxist to contract ethics and utilitarianism.

Author : Marta Faustino,Gianfranco Ferraro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350134362

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The Late Foucault by Marta Faustino,Gianfranco Ferraro Pdf

Michel Foucault is one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the leading figures in contemporary Western intellectual life and debate. The recent publication of his last lecture courses at the Collège de France (1981-1984), together with the short texts, essays, and interviews from the same period, have sparked new interest in his work, allowing for a new understanding of his philosophical trajectory and challenging several interpretations produced over the last few decades. In this later phase of his thinking, Foucault deepens and expands the course of his preceding works on the genealogy of subjectivity, while at the same time adding a significant ethical and political dimension to it. His focus on the ancient ethics of care of the self and technologies of self-constitution during this period adds important nuances to his previous positions on power, truth, and subjectivity, shedding new light on his philosophical endeavour as a whole and situating his reflections at the centre of current moral debates. Focusing on the last stage of Foucault's thought, this book brings together international scholars to relaunch the critical debate on the significance of Foucault's so-called “ethical turn” and to discuss the ways in which the perspectives offered by Foucault in this period might help us to unravel modernity, giving us the tools to understand and transform our present, ethically and politically.

Author : Mike Gane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135174521

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Towards a critique of Foucault by Mike Gane Pdf

The work of Michel Foucault, one of the most influential of modern French social theorists and philosophers, has had a dramatic and far-reaching effect on many disciplines. The essays in this reissued collection, originally published in 1986, present Foucault's work as an important contribution to the theoretical analysis of history, language and power. They also represent a critical response to this contribution, encouraging readers not only to read Foucault for themselves, but to think about some new problems in a new way.

Author : Timothy O'Leary
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144034

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Foucault and the Art of Ethics by Timothy O'Leary Pdf

The work of Michel Foucault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexuality studies. In his later work, Foucault turned to the question of ethics. Working back through history, through the Christian interrogation of desire to the origins of the self in the texts of classical Greece, Foucault attempted to conceive of ethics as an art of the self, as an aesthetics of existence and as a practice of liberty. Foucault and the Art of Ethics argues that Foucault's exploration of the history of sexuality and his reinterpretation of the critical philosophical tradition combine to frame a new approach both to the way we understand the tasks of philosophy and to the way we live our lives. The book is essential reading for all those working at the intersection of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, politics and cultural studies.

Author : Wolfgang Detel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139442442

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Foucault and Classical Antiquity by Wolfgang Detel Pdf

This 2005 book is a critical examination of Michel Foucault's relation to ancient Greek thought, in particular his famous analysis of Greek history of sexuality. Wolfgang Detel offers an understanding of Foucault's theories of power and knowledge based on modern analytical theories of science and concepts of power. He offers a complex reading of the texts which Foucault discusses, covering topics such as Aristotle's ethics and theory of sex, Hippocratic dietetics, the earliest treatises on economics, and Plato's theory of love. The result is a philosophically rich and probing critique of Foucault's later writings, and a persuasive account of the relation between ethics, power and knowledge in classical antiquity. His book will have a wide appeal to readers interested in Foucault and in Greek thought and culture.

Author : Barry Smart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415088887

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Michel Foucault by Barry Smart Pdf

Author : Timothy O'Leary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472546458

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Foucault by Timothy O'Leary Pdf

"The work of Michel Foucault has been extremely influential in fields as varied as philosophy, history, cultural studies, sociology and sexuality studies. Foucault and the Art of Ethics argues that Foucault's exploration of the history of sexuality and his re-interpretation of the critical philosophical tradition combine to frame a new approach both to the way we understand the tasks of philosophy and to the way we live our lives. This is essential reading for all those working at the intersection of contemporary debates in philosophy, ethics, politics and cultural studies."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : John Rajchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135174453

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Truth and Eros by John Rajchman Pdf

In this reissused work, first published in 1991, John Rajchman isolates the question of ethics in the work of Foucault and Lacan and explores its ramifications and implications for the present day. He demonstrates that the question of ethics was at once the most difficult and the most intimate question for these two authors, offering a complex point of intersection between them. As such, he argues that it belongs to the great tradition that is concerned with the passion or eros of philosophy and of its "will to truth". Truth and Eros suggests a way of reading Foucault and Lacan as philosophers who re-eroticised the activity of thought in our time, opeing new and different spaces for thought and action - new types of subjectivity.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141991382

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Ethics by Michel Foucault Pdf

'A fabulous journey through thirty years of political and intellectual ferment ... will reorient our reading of Foucault's major works' Didier Eribon The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his extraordinary career. This first volume, Ethics, contains the summaries of Foucault's renowned courses at the Collège de France, as well as key writings and candid interviews on ethical matters: from the role of the intellectual and philosopher in society to friendship, sexuality and the care of the self and others. Edited by Paul Rabinow Translated by Robert Hurley and Others

Author : Bruce Moghtader
Publisher : Springer
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137574961

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Foucault and Educational Ethics by Bruce Moghtader Pdf

In his works on ethics, Foucault turned towards an examination of one's relationship with oneself and others. This differs from the modern approaches that explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Foucault's writing and lectures contributed to an awareness of the activities we take upon ourselves as ethical subjects. His reconstruction of the Greco-Roman ethics seeks to examine the possibilities of the reconstitution and transformation of subjectivity. Through this, he offers an avenue of understanding the formation of ethical subjects in their educational interrelationships.

Author : James D. Faubion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139501279

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An Anthropology of Ethics by James D. Faubion Pdf

Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He further argues that Foucault's framework is in need of substantial revision to be of genuinely anthropological scope. In making this revision, Faubion illustrates his program with two extended case studies: one of a Portuguese marquis and the other of a dual subject made up of the author and a millenarian prophetess. The result is a conceptual apparatus that is able to accommodate ethical pluralism and yield an account of the limits of ethical variation, providing a novel resolution of the problem of relativism that has haunted anthropological inquiry into ethics since its inception.

Author : Jeffrey Minson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349044573

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Genealogies of Morals by Jeffrey Minson Pdf

Author : Jeremy Moss
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1446238121

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The Later Foucault by Jeremy Moss Pdf

Why does Foucault's work continue to be of central importance in current debates in sociology, political science and philosophy? Why do we still read him as a guide to contemporary social and cultural life? Foucault's work presents a provocative challenge to orthodox, habitual forms of belief and practice. The Later Foucault," "with an impressive interdisciplinary focus, argues that one of the keys to understanding Foucault is his political thought. It is this which he expressed clearly in his last writings and which pulled together his earlier interests in power, agency and subjectivity. In this volume a distinguished array of Foucauldian scholars and commentators on politics explore the significance of these last writings. They examine such key issues as the question of Foucault and human rights; his relationship to ethical thought, power and freedom; his relationship to feminism; and comparisons of his work with Levinas and Rawls.

Author : Chris Falzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134698509

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Foucault and Social Dialogue by Chris Falzon Pdf

Foucault and Social Dialogue; Beyond Fragmentation is a compelling yet extremely clear investigation of these options and offers a new way forward. Christopher Falzon argues that the proper alternative to foundationalism is not fragmentation but dialogue and that such a dialogical picture can be found in the work of Michel Foucault. Such a reading of Foucault allows us to see, for the first time, the ethical and political position implicit in Foucault's work and how his work contributes to the larger debate concerning the death of man.