Christianity and the Self-Renunciation in the Late Foucault
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Christianity. Self-renunciation. Truth. Subject. Confession.Abstract
This article analyzed how Christianity produced a subjectivity through which the subject renounced himself. We defend the hypothesis that this mode of Christian subjectivation was only made possible due to two characteristics present in the relationship between subject and truth in early Christianity: the obligatoriness to confess a truth about oneself and the imperfection that characterizes human nature in Christian anthropology. In other words, the self-truth confession has become a kind of cure for sins arising from the imperfect nature of men. In this double movement which began with a hermeneutics of the self and ended with the verbalization of the truth found within one’s own self, the subject became entangled in a mesh of power constituted by confessed truths that led him to renounce himself.
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