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Confessional subjects and conducts of non-truth : Foucault, Fanon, and the making of the subject
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Lorenzini, Daniele and Tazzioli, Martina (2018) Confessional subjects and conducts of non-truth : Foucault, Fanon, and the making of the subject. Theory, Culture & Society, 35 (1). pp. 71-90. doi:10.1177/0263276416678291 ISSN 0263-2764.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276416678291
Abstract
This article puts Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon into dialogue in order to explore the relationships between the constitution of subjects and the production of truth in modern Western societies as well as in colonial spaces. Firstly, it takes into account Foucault’s analysis of confessional practices and the effects of subjection, objectivation, and subjectivation generated by the injunction for the subject to tell the truth about him or herself. Secondly, it focuses on the question of interpellation that emerges in the colonial context and on the colonized who, as Fanon illustrates, is always seen as a deceitful subject. Finally, it shows that, despite the difference in the relationships between the constitution of subjectivity and the production of true discourses described by Foucault and Fanon, the transformative dimension enacted by the processes of subjectivation and by the practices of resistance constitutes a shared conceptual and political ground between the two authors.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Truth -- Philosophy, Confession, Foucault, Michel,1926-1984, Fanon, Frantz,1925-1961, Truthfulness and falsehood, Subjectivity -- Social aspects | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Theory, Culture & Society | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0263-2764 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 71-90 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0263276416678291 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 October 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 14 October 2019 |
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