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Anarcheology and the emergence of the alethurgic subject in Foucault’s On the Government of the Living

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Lorenzini, Daniele (2020) Anarcheology and the emergence of the alethurgic subject in Foucault’s On the Government of the Living. Foucault Studies Lectures, 3 (1). pp. 53-70. doi:10.22439/fsl.vi0.6153 ISSN 2597-2545.

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Abstract

On the Government of the Living plays a pivotal role in the evolution of Foucault’s thought because it constitutes a “laboratory” in which he forges the methodological and conceptual tools—such as the notions of anarcheology and alethurgy (or, better, what I call here the “alethurgic subject”)—necessary to carry on his study of governmentality independently from his History of Sexuality project. In this paper, I argue that Foucault’s projects of an anarcheology of the government of human beings through the manifestation of truth in the form of subjectivity and of a genealogy of the subject of desire, albeit essentially linked to one another, are conceptually autonomous. These projects are both part of a genealogy of the modern subject but should be treated independently insofar as it is the former, elaborated in On the Government of the Living, that provides us with the key to understanding Foucault’s interest in the care of the self and parrhesia as an integral part of his analyses of governmentality and the critical attitude from the late 1970s.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation, Truth -- Philosophy, Power (Social sciences), Subjectivity
Journal or Publication Title: Foucault Studies Lectures
Publisher: Copenhagen Business School
ISSN: 2597-2545
Official Date: 16 December 2020
Dates:
DateEvent
16 December 2020Published
25 May 2020Accepted
Volume: 3
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 53-70
DOI: 10.22439/fsl.vi0.6153
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Copyright Holders: Copyright (c) 2020 Daniele Lorenzini
Date of first compliant deposit: 13 January 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 14 January 2021
Is Part Of: 1

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