Foucault and the Making of Subjects

Laura Cremonesi

ISBN 10: 1786601044 / ISBN 13: 9781786601049

Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016

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• Titolo: Foucault and the Making of Subjects
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1786601044
• ISBN 13: 9781786601049
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 157 A x 17 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 157 millimetri di altezza per 17 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 486 grammi

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Riassunto

Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a "subject of" and being "subject to" political forces. This book interrogates the philosophical and political consequences of such a dual definition of the subject, by exploring the processes of subjectivation and objectivation through which subjects are produced. Drawing together well-known scholars of Foucaultian thought and critical theory, alongside a newly translated interview with Foucault himself, the book will engage in a serious reconsideration of the notion of "autonomy" beyond the liberal tradition, connecting it to processes of subjectivation. In the face of the ongoing proliferation of analyses using the notion of subjectivation, this book will retrace Foucault's reflections on it and interrogate the current theoretical and political implications of a series of approaches that mobilize the Foucaultian understanding of the subject in relation to truth and power.

Informazioni sugli autori

Laura Cremonesi specialises in 20th Century French Philosophy and has published articles and book chapters on Michel Foucault and Pierre Hadot. She has published a book on Foucault's interpretation of the ancient world, Michel Foucault e il mondo antico. Spunti per una critica dell'attualità (ETS, 2008), and translated from French into Italian the book by Pierre Hadot, Études de philosophie ancienne (Les Belles Lettres, 2010): Studi di filosofia antica (ETS, 2015).

Orazio Irrera is Associate Researcher at the Centre de philosophie contemporaine de la Sorbonne, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani and the co-director of the permanent workshop "Race and Colonialism: On the Political Epistemologies of Decolonisation" at the Collège international de Philosophie. He is the co-editor of Foucault e le genalogie del dir-vero (Cronopio, 2014) and La pensée politique de Foucault (Kimé, 2016).

Daniele Lorenzini is Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Paris-Est Créteil. He is the author most recently of Éthique et politique de soi: Foucault, Hadot, Cavell et les techniques de l'ordinaire (Vrin, 2015) and the co-editor of Michel Foucault's lectures About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self (The University of Chicago Press, 2015), Qu'est-ce que la critique? Suivi de La culture de soi (Vrin, 2015), and Discours et vérité (Vrin, 2016). He is also a member of the editorial board of the journal materiali foucaultiani.

Martina Tazzioli is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oulu, Finland. She holds a PhD in Politics from Goldsmiths University of London, UK. She is co-editor of 'Spaces in Migration' (2012) and 'Foucault and the History of our Present' (2014).