Michel Foucault: Ethics, Esthetics and Hermeneutics of the Subject

Teachers

Professor Danny Praet (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)

Time, location and registration

Time 06.05.2009 - 07.05.2009
Registration time in webOodi 27.04.2009 - 07.05.2009

Wednesday and Thursday 6-7.5 10-12 a.m and 3-5 p.m., Siltavuorenpenger 20A sh. 303

Content

Professor Danny Praet (Universiteit Gent, Belgium) will give a short lecture course at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy on the subject of: Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality: Ethics, Esthetics and Hermeneutics of the Subject

Voluntary reading list:

  • L' usage des plaisirs - the use of pleasure (History of Sexuality 2): Part 1 Introduction: modifications; forms of problematization; morality and practice of the self, Part 2 The moral problematization of pleasures: "Aphrodisia"; "Chresis"; "Enkrateia"; freedom and truth.
  • Le combat de la chasteté in Dits et Ecrits, vol. 4, pp. 295-308 ("The Battle for Chastity" in Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth)
  • Techniques de soi in Dits et Ecrits, vol. 4 pp. 783-813 ("Technologies of the Self" in Ethics, Subjectivity and Truth or http://www.scribd.com/doc/11519107/Foucault-Technologies-of-the-Self
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