CRITIQUE, ETHOS, VIRTUE AND THE QUESTION OF GOVERNMENT IN FOUCAULT

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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v15i2.69321

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Attitude critique, virtue, Kant, pratices of government

Abstract

The year 1978 is of central importance for the set of studies carried out by Michel Foucault in his last period. It is where inflections of previous proposals converge and a junction is produced where the axes of knowledge, power and modes of subjectivation intersect. It is also where the analytic of power extends to a genealogy of governmentality that tracks the practices of government and the forms of counter-conduct that constitute the terrain of the critical attitude. Thus, the objective of this paper is to explore the importance of critical attitude in Foucault's intellectual path, as a characteristic ethos of modernity and also as a virtue capable of questioning the practices of conduct of conduct. In this context, we want to demonstrate that Foucault's interest in Kant's text arises from the problematization of government practices that interrogate modernity and Aufklärung for the benefit of his own critical project.

 

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Helrison Silva Costa, Doutor em Filosofia pela UFMG.

Bacharel em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (2012). Mestre em Filosofia (bolsista CAPES) pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal de Minas. Desenvolve pesquisa na área de Filosofia Política contemporânea especialmente no pensamento de Michel Foucault nos seguintes temas: governamentalidade, crítica genealógica, práticas de governo, contraconduta e parresía.

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Published

2024-10-30

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2024)

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