Foucault's Critical Ethics / / Richard A. Lynch.

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 articu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Just Ideas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Michel Foucault as Critical Theorist
  • 1. Approaching Power from a New Theoretical Basis
  • 2. Disciplinary Power: Testing the Hobbesian Hypothesis
  • 3. Reframing the Theory: Biopower and Governmentality
  • 4. Freedom's Critique: The Trajectories of a Foucauldian Ethics
  • Conclusion. To Struggle with Hope
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index