Is ethical life possible in Foucault's thought?

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Abstract

The characterization of ethics postulated by Foucault in his latest research clashes with the conception of the subject of his early writings, where the subject is presented as the patient of the various institutional pressures that shape him. The present text proposes to delimit the tensions that arise when contrasting both conceptions. To this end, the particularities of ethics in Foucault will be outlined, in order to then outline the oppositions that it finds in the regulations of the field of power relations. Through this inquiry, we will seek to answer the question of whether ethical life is possible in Foucauldian philosophy.

Keywords:

Foucault, ethics, power, exomologesis, exagoreusis

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