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Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
Care Of The Self And The Will To Freedom: Michel Foucault, Critique And Ethics, Stephanie M. Batters
Senior Honors Projects
Care of the Self and the Will to Freedom
Stephanie Batters
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English
What do subjectivity, power and ethics have in common? For French philosopher Michel Foucault, each of these concepts inherently resides within the others. His works, spanning from the mid-1950s to his death in 1984, offer a profound theoretical approach to the complex questions that obtain between the individual and society. Foucault’s works present careful and intricate theories about the relationships of the past with the present, the individual with society, and power with truth. Many of his writings explore how the individual is made …
The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico
The Perpetual Creation And Provocation Of The Self, Krista Damico
Senior Honors Projects
The Perpetual Creation and Provocation of the Self
Krista D’Amico
Faculty Sponsor: Stephen Barber, English
This project consists of four related parts. The first part is a critical and creative work of prose in which I converse with the thought of two philosophers, namely Spinoza and Gilles Deleuze. This conversation enables me to present my own thought and subjectivity in relationship to a very important aspect of my life: music-making. The second part of my project is a critical essay in which I contemplate the work of another artist, Virginia Woolf, and the way that her credo Three Guineas (1938) …