Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America

By Lee Quinby

Drawing on Michel Foucault's theories of power, this study examines issues of American individuality, ethics and freedom. Through detailed critical readings of a wide range of important American texts, the author identifies an aesthetics of liberty, an ethical tradition that presents the creation of self as an exercise of personal freedom and civic responsibility. She argues that this tradition of ethics has been and continues to be the chief means by which Americans challenge dominant modes of disciplinary power.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555531083
• ISBN13: 9781555531089
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.