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Author Olssen, Mark, author.

Title Constructing Foucault's ethics : a poststructuralist moral theory for the twenty-first century / Mark Olssen
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)
Contents Foucault and normativity -- Life and error -- Foucault, Canguilhem, Jacob -- Nietzsche's life philosophy : naturalism, will to power, normativity -- Continuance ethics, objectivity, Kant -- Foucault, Hegel, Marx -- Hobbes, God, and modern social contract theory -- A politics of pluralism -- Democracy, education, global ethics -- Ethical comportment
Summary The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault's core postulates, this study advances the concept of 'life continuance', an approach it contrasts with a range of other, established systems
Analysis Ethics
Friedrich Nietzsche
Heidegger
Kant
Marx and Hegel
Michel Foucault
Moral philosophy
Normativity
Pluralism
Poststructuralism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed July 20, 2023)
Subject Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Ethics
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Normativity (Ethics)
Political science -- Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Normativity (Ethics)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526156617
152615661X
9781526156594
1526156598