Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Foucault and normativity
- 2 Life and error: Foucault, Canguilhem, Jacob
- 3 Nietzsche’s life philosophy: Naturalism, will to power, normativity
- 4 Continuance ethics, objectivity, Kant
- 5 Foucault, Hegel, Marx
- 6 Hobbes, God, and modern social contract theory
- 7 A politics of pluralism
- 8 Democracy, education, global ethics
- 9 Ethical comportment
- Appendix 1: A reading list for Foucault’s ethics
- Appendix 2: The Anglo-American and Continental traditions on Nietzsche scholarship, a note
- References
- Index
9 - Ethical comportment
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Book contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Foucault and normativity
- 2 Life and error: Foucault, Canguilhem, Jacob
- 3 Nietzsche’s life philosophy: Naturalism, will to power, normativity
- 4 Continuance ethics, objectivity, Kant
- 5 Foucault, Hegel, Marx
- 6 Hobbes, God, and modern social contract theory
- 7 A politics of pluralism
- 8 Democracy, education, global ethics
- 9 Ethical comportment
- Appendix 1: A reading list for Foucault’s ethics
- Appendix 2: The Anglo-American and Continental traditions on Nietzsche scholarship, a note
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 concludes this study by examining the issues of ethics and the subject. Drawing on writing on normative moral philosophy in relation to Foucault, the chapter introduces and critically examines the themes of personal responsibility, integrity, authenticity, and ethical comportment, drawing especially on the work of Judith Butler. It seeks to ascertain how the individual acts morally and engages ethically in a complex world and what ethical engagement, ethical motivation, and ethical commitment looks like from a Foucauldian point of view.
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- Constructing Foucault’s ethicsA poststructuralist moral theory for the twenty-first century, pp. 262 - 291Publisher: Manchester University Press
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