Friendship from the perspective of M. Foucault

Authors

  • Nilmar Pellizzaro

Keywords:

Foucault. Government of self. Government of other. Friendship. Ethics of the care for self.

Abstract

The study here presented has the goal of exhibiting the concept of friendship in Michel Foucault, from its relation to power and ethics. Given that friendship is a relationship of power, our hypothesis is that it is the best relationship from the ethical viewpoint, considering ethics as being that relation in which each one is invited to take care of oneself and to stimulate the other to do the same as well. When lived in the perspective of ethics of the care for self, friendship is capable of stimulating big changes in the relations of power, making people freer, less governed. Thinking from the standpoint of friendship is to issue a challenge so that new kinds of relationship may emerge and thereby also new kinds of subjectivity and sociability.

Published

2015-07-01

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Section

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