Sex:Powers Of Critical And Ethical Construction

Foucault’s academic research centers are almost always around criticizing power to carry out. At this point,《Sexual history》 is no exception. The expression of his sex thought always has a strong point to power criticism. However, different from the past, his sex thought in addition to the negative dimension of power criticism, still in the affirmative dimension, through excavation and reconstruction of sex’s significance, expressed an attempt to construct a self-Ethics. Sort out and clarify that Foucault to the sex concept of the core, his ideological approach carried out in this two dimensions, constitutes this thesis’basic context. The text is divided into three chapters commence:The first chapter, we investigate the sex that in Foucault’s eyes. Departure from traditional sex to Foucault’s meaning of sex, find the bias of traditional theory’s understanding and the association with power. And also discuss the Foucault’s method of studying sex.The second chapter focuses on Foucault’s criticism of sexual power. Discuss the theory of traditional power. Foucault reveals and criticizes the power in the field of sex, and at the same time, Foucault’s power theory can be constructed highlighted.The third chapter, we talk about Foucault constructs the self-ethics. Foucault critiques the power, resists the power, boycott the power, in view of the power on kidnapping and bounding of sex, the liberation’s necessity and possibility start to show. Foucault dates back to ancient Greek and Roman period of the endogenous sex, from there to find the resources to be inspired and learned from, thus he constructs aesthetic ethics or virtue ethics based on self-skills.