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Foucauldian Practices: Philosophical Inquiry as Virtuous Enactments for Material Change
Sat, April 10, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
In this paper I consider philosophical inquiry as an ethical enactment for material change. I do so by situating philosophical inquiry as a type of virtuous practice, animated by an ethical determination to generate material difference. I thus place a large degree of theoretical emphasis on the Foucauldian notions of practice, virtue, and enactment as a means to recognize the open-ended, process-based orientation of such work. Through the course of my paper I extend this argument to challenge conventional inquiry practices in education to generate different, more immanently situated, effects.