Foucault and Ethical Subjectivity

Abstract

When “man” emerges as the positive figure in the field of knowledge, modern thought needs to grapple with those dim, yet positive forces that motivate action. “What is essential [to modern episteme] is that thought, both for itself and in the density of its workings, should be both knowledge and a modification of what it knows, reflection and a transformation of the mode of being of that on which it reflects.”

Keywords

• Michel Foucault
• ethics of subjectivity
• sexuality