The work of Michel Foucault has had a huge influence on contemporary philosophy, but one thing it lacks is a normative ethical framework. Seeking to construct an ethics consistent with Foucault's core postulates, this study advances the concept of 'life continuance', an approach it contrasts with a range of other, established systems.

• Front Matter
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Foucault and normativity
• Life and error: Foucault, Canguilhem, Jacob
• Nietzsche’s life philosophy: naturalism, will to power, normativity
• Continuance ethics, objectivity, Kant
• Foucault, Hegel, Marx
• Hobbes, God, and modern social contract theory
• A politics of pluralism
• Democracy, education, global ethics
• Ethical comportment
• Appendix 1: A reading list for Foucault’s ethics
• Appendix 2: The Anglo-American and Continental traditions on Nietzsche scholarship, a note
• References
• Index