Foucault on Freedom

Johanna Oksala

Foucault on Freedom.

Cambridge:Cambridge University Press 2005.

 

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part language
1 Philosophical laughter ..................................................17
An archaeology of order ................................................19
The three epistemes ......................................................23
The birth and death of man .............................................30
The being of language ...................................................34
2 The Foucaultian failure of phenomenology .......................40
The history of science ....................................................41
The analytic of finitude ....................................................53
3 The anonymity of language ...........................................70
A view from nowhere .....................................................71
The subject of change ....................................................78
The freedom of language .................................................81

part body
4 A genealogy of the subject ...........................................93
The constitution of the subject .........................................95
The problem of circularity ................................................104
5 Anarchic bodies .........................................................110
The body of power ........................................................111
The discursive body .......................................................117

The resistance of the body ..............................................121
The anarchic body .........................................................124
6 Female freedom .........................................................135
The anonymous subjectivity of the body ............................138
The historical constitution of the body ................................145
Female freedom? ..........................................................150

 

part ethics
7 The silence of ethics ....................................................157
History of ethics .............................................................157
Ethics as practice ...........................................................160
The ethical subject ..........................................................161
Ethics as aesthetics .........................................................165
Philosophy lived .............................................................169
8 The freedom of philosophy ............................................175
The freedom of critical reflection ........................................176
Freedom as ethos ..........................................................182
The different meanings of freedom .....................................188
9 The other ...................................................................193
Ethical subject and the other .............................................195
Subjectivity as passivity ...................................................199
The other as precondition of ethics ....................................204
Conclusion: freedom as an operational concept ...................208
References ....................................................................211
Index 22

 

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