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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

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Front. Philos. China    2017, Vol. 12 Issue (1) : 120-136    https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-006-017-0009-4
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Critique, Ethics, and the Apparatus of Experience: A Foucauldian Framework
Timothy O’Leary()
Department of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Abstract

The paper explores examples of contemporary experience in order to demonstrate the moralisation of new areas of behaviour (especially in relation to environmental issues). It sketches a Foucauldian framework for understanding the historical transformation of experience, in terms of the “apparatus of experience.” On that basis, it presents a novel account of critique, in which critique is seen as the potentially transformational, experiential practice of re-experiencing the contemporary apparatuses of experience. In other words, critique is “experience squared.” It is this re-experiencing of our everyday experience that permits us, to a certain extent, to “get over ourselves” and thus to reflect critically on the processes of moralisation and de-moralisation in which we participate.

Keywords ethics      experience      critique      Foucault     
Issue Date: 24 April 2017
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Timothy O’Leary. Critique, Ethics, and the Apparatus of Experience: A Foucauldian Framework[J]. Front. Philos. China, 2017, 12(1): 120-136.
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https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/10.3868/s030-006-017-0009-4
https://academic.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/Y2017/V12/I1/120
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