Pregled bibliografske jedinice broj: 1235398
Ethics grounded in subjectivity: care as a return of self to self?
Ethics grounded in subjectivity: care as a return of self to self? // London Conference in Critical Thought 2017
London South Bank University, London, Velika Britanija, 2017. (predavanje, međunarodna recenzija, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni)
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Naslov
Ethics grounded in subjectivity: care as a return of
self to self?
Autori
Krce-Ivančić, Matko
Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni
Skup
London Conference in Critical Thought 2017
Mjesto i datum
London South Bank University, London, Velika Britanija, 30.06.-01.07.2017
Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje
Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija
Ključne riječi
care ; Foucault ; ethics ; self ; subjectivity
Sažetak
While examining the Greeks, Foucault was intrigued as their ''ethics was not related to any social – or at least to any legal – institutional system […] they were worried about, their theme, was to constitute an ethics which was an aesthetics of existence''. Acknowledging the lack of institutional system that could serve as a principle of contemporary ethics, Foucault came across a surprising similarity between our condition and the morality of antiquity. This paper takes his parallel further, examining the care of the self – what the Cynics understood to be ''a return of self to self'' – as a contemporary ethical strategy. Arguing that ''we have to get rid of this idea of an analytical or necessary link between ethics and other social or economic or political structures'', Foucault nonetheless made it clear that ''you can't find the solution of a problem in the solution of another problem raised at another moment by other people''. Therefore, I examine the possibility of grounding ethics in a particular type of subjectivity or, in other words, forming an aesthetics of existence that would go beyond neoliberalism. Against Hegel's brief dismissal of the Cynics, I draw on the productivity of Diogenes' laugh at sophisticated philosophical systems. Finally, I explore whether the tension between a collective and an individual ethical achievement, as is often argued, challenges the care of the self as a contemporary possibility.
Izvorni jezik
Engleski
Znanstvena područja
Sociologija
Napomena
Ustanova: University of Manchester, Manchester,
Velika Britanija. Ovaj rad podupiru: ‘President’s
Doctoral Scholar Award’ i ‘School of Social
Sciences PhD Studentship’ (dodjeljuje: Sociology,
School of Social Sciences, University of
Manchester), i ‘Economic and Social Sciences
Research Council North West Doctoral Training
Centre Studentship [grant number ES/J500094/1]’.
