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15 - Michel Foucault: an ethical politics of care of self and others
- By Alan Milchman, Alan Rosenberg
Edited by Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Book:

Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Published online:

05 June 2012

Print publication:

29 August 2011, pp 228-237
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Michel Foucault's ethical turn of the early 1980s led him in the direction of a re-conceptualization of politics as an ethical politics. Foucault explored the prospects for self-creation within the ambit of his treatment of ethics, which for him was integral to politics, and its link to the question of freedom. Indeed, one implication of care of self is care of others, of those with whom we share a communal life. Foucault's concern for self and its cultivation is assuredly not solipsistic. The agonistic character of democracy on which Foucault insisted, linked to its parrhesiastic game, the framework within which truth telling functions, opens a path to a politics of care of self and care of others by its constant effort to expand the scope for new modes of subjectivity, by creating the space for the flourishing of a multiplicity of arts of living.