A Nietzschean reading of Foucauldian thinking: Constructing a project of the self within an ontology of becoming

Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 497-515

  Bardon, Thibaut ^a,b   Josserand, Emmanuel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c EM NORMANDIE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

epistemology; ethics; Foucault; genealogy of morals; methodology; Nietzsche; ontology; power knowledge; project of the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959849058     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508410384758     Document Type: Article

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