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I. ON THE ART OF LIVING AND TRANSFORMATIVE SELF‐TECHNOLOGIES Although his critics claim otherwise, Michel Foucault understood his work as consistently focused in one way or another on the genealogy of the subject and the construction of subjectivities. In other words, while acknowledging changes, developments, retractions, methodological expansions and the like, Foucault also observed strong lines of continuity unifying his corpus – continuity centered upon and constantly hovering around subject‐formation. Here perhaps I should say a few words regarding my synonymous employment of the terms ‘subject,’ ‘subjectivity,’ and ‘self.’ Although some scholars might contest my usage, claiming that it conflates distinct concepts, my riposte is that Foucault himself, or at least the English translators of his work, employ the terms synonymously. For example, in his essay, ‘About the Beginnings of the Hermeneutics of the Self,’ he describes his work on the institutional practices associated with prisons, hospitals, and asylums as directed towards how ‘subjects became objects of knowledge and at the same time objects of domination.’ He then describes the next phase of his work – the focus of this essay – as an analysis of ‘those forms of understanding which the subject creates about himself.’ This attention
The Heythrop Journal – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2014
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