id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt ns064457p7b Patrick Gamez Foucault against Ethics: Subjectivity and Critique after Humanism 1904 .txt text/plain 350 15 40 In brief the charge is that in revealing the power-relations that partially constitute Enlightenment institutions and the ideals that sustain them, Foucault deprives himself of the resources required to construct the kind of ethical theory needed to ground his critical project. I argue that Foucault's archaeological and genealogical works are best construed as an historical inquiry into the construction of spaces of reasons, in which we find ourselves subject to normative evaluation and direction. cache/ns064457p7b.txt txt/ns064457p7b.txt