ABSTRACT
This chapter develops 'ethical reflexivity' as a practice of ethics by discussing Anthony Giddens, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault. It presents ethical reflexivity as the dialectic, dialogic, and affective navigation of thought and action coupled with a critical ontology of the self, wherein one investigates subjectivity and the potential for its transformation as a response to difference, relationship, and epistemological uncertainty. The chapter focuses on the ontology of reflexivity as an ethics. It investigates how Giddens, Arendt and Foucault can contribute to a practice of reflexivity that is premised on epistemological uncertainty and our capacity, as agents, to appreciate this claim and thus make provisional judgments subject to perpetual critique. The chapter describes on the process of ethical reflexivity with some discussion of its attitude of a critical ontology of the self, as willingness to take the self as an object of inquiry, and openness to self-transformation via internal and external dialogue.
