The subject in Foucault: aesthetics of existence or moral experiment?
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Foucault, Subject, Aesthetics of existence, Sexual practices and roles, Homossexualism, Sado-masochismAbstract
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.Downloads
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