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Foucault's Critical Ethics /

Argues that Michel Foucault's account of power provides a inescapable framework for ethics. Traces Foucault's analyses of power and ancient and contemporary ethical practices. Articulates a Foucauldian ethics constituted by a critical attitude, with substantive but revisable values grounde...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lynch, Richard A., 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Michel Foucault as critical theorist
  • Approaching power from a new theoretical basis
  • Disciplinary power: testing the Hobbesian hypothesis
  • Reframing the theory: biopower and governmentality
  • Freedom's critique: the trajectories of a Foucauldian ethics
  • To struggle with hope.