Foucault on Subjectivity and Life Forms

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https://doi.org/10.26512/rfmc.v7i2.23115

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Michel Foucault - ethics - subjectivity - government - techniques of the self

Abstract

Foucault's notion of "subjectivity", which appears mainly in his genealogies of the 80s dedicated to the techniques of the self in antiquity, also composes a critique of governmental reason, since it interprets the modes of subjectivation of the ancients as a model of self-government. After we approach the question in The Use of Pleasure, we will analyze the example of self-writing as production of the subjectivity of the ancients to argue that in Foucault's thought the notion of subjectivity is necessarily linked to the creation of life forms. In other terms, a certain disposition of the relation between subject and truth corresponds to a direction that Foucault identifies as ethics.

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Lara Pimentel Figueira Anastacio, Universidade de São Paulo, USP

Mestre em Filosofia pela Universidade de São Paulo (2017). Atualmente realiza doutorado pela mesma instituição. Dedica-se às seguintes áreas de pesquisa: filosofia alemã do século XIX com ênfase em Nietzsche e filosofia francesa contemporânea, especialmente Michel Foucault.

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Published

2019-11-17

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PIMENTEL FIGUEIRA ANASTACIO, Lara. Foucault on Subjectivity and Life Forms. Journal of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 2, p. 327–344, 2019. DOI: 10.26512/rfmc.v7i2.23115. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/fmc/article/view/23115. Acesso em: 21 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019): Dossier "Spinoza"

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