Constructing Foucault's Ethics: A Poststructura. Olssen Paperback**

Name: Constructing Foucault's Ethics: A Poststructura. Olssen Paperback**
Brand: Manchester University Press

Manchester University Press

Constructing Foucault's EthicsA Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century\nAuthor(s): Mark Olssen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526176271, 978-1526176271\nSynopsis\nIn popularising the term speaking truth to power, Michel Foucault established the basis upon which a new ethics can be constructed. This is the thesis that Mark Olssen advances in Constructing Foucaults ethics. Olssen not only speaks truth to existing moral and ethical theories that have dominated western philosophy since Plato, but also shows how an alternative ethical and moral theory can be established that avoids the pitfalls of postmodern relativism while grounding ethical, moral and political discourse for the present age. \nTaking the late ethical turn in the philosophers thought as its starting point, this ambitious study seeks to construct an ethics beyond anything Foucault ever attempted while remai.