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Foucault on Ethics and Subjectivity: Care of the Self and Aesthetics of Existence
Daniel Smith 2015 ISSN: 1832-5203 Foucault Studies, No. 19, pp.
Subjectivity michel foucault biography pdf
135-150, June 2015 ARTICLE Foucault on Ethics and Subjectivity: Care of the Self and Aesthetics of Existence Daniel Smith, Pennsylvania State University ABSTRACT: This paper considers the structure of the ethical subject found in Foucault s late works on ethics, and gives an account of his two major ethical concepts care of the self and aesthetics of existence.
The care of the self, it is argued, gives Foucault a way of conceptualising ethics which does not rely on juridical categories, and which does not conceive the ethical subject on the model of substance. The care of the self entails an understanding of the ethical subject as a process which is always in a relation, specifically in a relation to itself.
Using his essay What is an Author, it is argued that the subject of the aesthetics of existence, like the author of a text, is und