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From "the Face on the Sand" to "Ethics of the Self": Elementary Research on Foucault’s Thought on Subject - Couverture souple

Qiu, Lujun

 
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Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3846551228 ISBN 13 : 9783846551226
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Michel Foucault is one of the most remarkable and important figures of the 20th century. Foucault's early oeuvre is, to certain extent, oriented toward breaking down the domination of a fully self-reflective, unified and rational subject at the centre of thought. Foucault maintains that subject has become the slave to the cage of material world and power relations and deeply trapped in the grid of power/knowledge which leads to the famous claim of ‘the Death of the man’. However, in his final years, Foucault complements his passive, austere, detached vocabularies of ‘strategies’ and ‘technologies’ with the graceful and freedom-inspiring idea of an ‘ethics of the self’ or ‘aesthetics of existence’, where the main concern is to give one’s life a self-determined, aesthetic appeal, and unique style. Foucault’s ethics is an invitation to a practice of liberty, struggle and transgression, which seeks to open possibilities for new relations to self and events in the world. By understanding how a structure of social constraint has been constructed, one can understand how to escape the instrumental rationality or utilitarian logic that structures contemporary social experience.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Michel Foucault is one of the most remarkable and important figures of the 20th century. Foucault's early oeuvre is, to certain extent, oriented toward breaking down the domination of a fully self-reflective, unified and rational subject at the centre of thought. Foucault maintains that subject has become the slave to the cage of material world and power relations and deeply trapped in the grid of power/knowledge which leads to the famous claim of ‘the Death of the man’. However, in his final years, Foucault complements his passive, austere, detached vocabularies of ‘strategies’ and ‘technologies’ with the graceful and freedom-inspiring idea of an ‘ethics of the self’ or ‘aesthetics of existence’, where the main concern is to give one’s life a self-determined, aesthetic appeal, and unique style. Foucault’s ethics is an invitation to a practice of liberty, struggle and transgression, which seeks to open possibilities for new relations to self and events in the world. By understanding how a structure of social constraint has been constructed, one can understand how to escape the instrumental rationality or utilitarian logic that structures contemporary social experience.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lujun Qiu is a lecturer at School of Foreign Languages in Zhejiang A & F University , China. His major academic interest includes postmodernism cultural studies, applied linguistics and poetry translation.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3846551228
ISBN 13 
9783846551226
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
72
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