Foucault's Critical Ethics
Lynch, Richard A.,1967-author.
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 grounded in a practice of freedom.
Specialized.
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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 grounded in a practice of freedom.
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Power (Philosophy)
Ethics.