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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.

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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 Appendix: Michel Foucault's shorter works in English Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Foucaults Critical Ethics

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 5 September 2016
      ISBN-13 9780823271252
      978-0823271252
      ISBN-10 0823271250
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      Ethics and moral philosophy Political science and theory

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of 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 Appendix: Michel Foucault's shorter works in English Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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