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- Title
Foucault, yönetimsellik ve ahlak.
- Authors
Eksen, Kerem
- Abstract
The analysis of processes of subjectivation, which came into the fore in Michel Foucault's late works, may safely be seen as the prolongation of the genealogy of the strategies of government and the analyses of contemporary governmentality developed by the thinker in late 70's. Since governmentality functions at the level of the processes of subjectivation, ethics, as the sphere of the self's relationship to herself, becomes a subject of political problematization. My goal, in this article, is to focus on the tension between ethics and law-based morality -a tension that Foucault briefly considers in his discussions on ethics- and to analyze their respective roles in contemporary governmentality. I first present an overview of various elements in Foucault's analysis of governmentality that relate to his discussion of ethics. Following this, I focus on the distinction between ethics and law-based morality, by presenting an analytical distinction that Foucault provides between the two spheres. This will be succeeded by the examination of Foucault's apparently contradicting -but in the last analysis similar- positions regarding this distinction. These discussions will lead me to the following conclusion: Even though Foucault puts a special emphasis on the sphere of ethics in his account of governmentality, he clearly attributes a critical -but often neglected- role to law-based morality. Even though it is going through a serious crisis, law-based morality, understood as an area of "objective" knowledge in which human action is problematized, constitutes one of the two major components of the contemporary regime of subjectivity.
- Publication
Felsefelogos, 2016, Issue 63, p107
- ISSN
1309-9175
- Publication type
Article