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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
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/fsl.vi0.6153
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 | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BC Logic B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| 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 | ||||||
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| 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 | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright (c) 2020 Daniele Lorenzini |
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