The subject in Foucault: aesthetics of existence or moral experiment?
The article discusses the objections taken to Foucault´s ideas about the subject´s ethics which would lead to an absence of compromise with universal values and principles of the liberal democracies. Discussing Taylor´s, Hochlitz´s, Hadot´s and Rorty´s propositions Foucault´s answer would be formula...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 1995 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositório: | Tempo Social (Online) |
| Idioma: | português |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/85213 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/ts/article/view/85213 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Foucault Subject Aesthetics of existence Sexual practices and roles Homossexualism Sado-masochism Sujeito Estética da existência Práticas e papéis sexuais Homossexualismo Sado-masoquismo |
| Resumo: | The article discusses the objections taken to Foucault´s ideas about the subject´s ethics which would lead to an absence of compromise with universal values and principles of the liberal democracies. Discussing Taylor´s, Hochlitz´s, Hadot´s and Rorty´s propositions Foucault´s answer would be formulated based on a radical change in the subject´s image and in the ways of building up relations which, in case of sexuality, as the categories are re-defined, would question the actual moral hierarchy of sexual practices with his fixed domination and subjection relationships. |
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