Search results for "Foucault"
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Contro-parola. Foucault e la parresia
2018
In this collection of papers, the various authors stress the foucauldian notion of parrhesia, i.e. tell-the-truth, especially in Ancient Greek, but with some explorations in contemporary age.
Gubernamentalidad y poder politico
2015
Da Trump a Foucault. Postverità e parresia
2021
Vaccaro analyzes the philosophical-political status of the category "Post-Truth", from Arendt to Foucault, and opposes to it the concept of Parrhesia with its political radicality.
The Double Paradigm of Power
2010
As everybody knows, power is a ugly thing, escaping an immediate catch that is aimed to represent it in a univocal way. In the western culture, its conformation is investigated by the classic metaphysical question – what is power? – so inexorably linking it to its essence, that yet defines the perimeter of truth in connection with its existence: in fact that question is possible only for what it is, not for what it is not (i.e. nihilism); things as they are given, they are so in their essence, that is unalterable in time and not deniable as truth effect. If things are by essence, they are true. So and not otherwise, that’s all! The primacy of essence as a real signification of things in the…
What is Experience? : Foucauldian Perspectives
2019
Michel Foucault’s (1926–1984) thought is widely used in the humanities and social sciences for investigating experiences of madness, illness, marginalization and social conflicts. However, the meaning of the word “experience” is not always clearly defined, and the French word expérience has a whole variety of meanings. In this article I explicate Foucault’s most relevant concepts of experience and their theoretical functions. He refers to experience throughout his career, especially in his early texts on existential psychiatry from the 1950s and 1960s and in his late work from the 1980s. Texts such as Mental Illness and Psychology and Dire vrai sur soi-même have received less attention than…
Où est-on quand on est en prison ?
2022
Affirmer qu’on peut juger d’une société en visitant ses prisons, c’est affirmer que la pénalité manifeste la nature du lien politique. Ainsi, l’exclusion que réalise l’emprisonnement pratiqué actuellement en France traduit concrètement, par sa passivité et sa quête de neutralité, l’imaginaire du contrat social, attestant que l’abolition de la peine de mort n’a pas encore fait l’objet d’une réception pleine et entière. Incarcérer autrement, incarcérer pour inclure en condamnant non à une durée mais à une mise en action, participerait donc à régénérer la manière dont nous envisageons ce qui nous unit.
Bene vivere politice
2022
Abstract This chapter approaches the question of biopolitics in ancient political thought looking not at specific political techniques but at notions of the final aim of the political community. It argues that the “happiness” (eudaimonia, beatitudo) that constitutes the greatest human good in the tradition from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas is not a “biopolitical” ideal, but rather a metabiopolitical one, consisting in a contemplative activity situated above and beyond the biological and the political. It is only with Thomas Hobbes that civic happiness becomes “biopolitically” identified with simple survival; for modernity, as Hannah Arendt puts it, mere being alive becomes the greatest human…
Violencia y género en la literatura de internado femenina en lengua alemana
2021
A principios del siglo XIX, la sociedad se expande a nivel demográfico, político e ideológico y en ella tiene lugar un cambio en los sistemas de poder. Las clases dominantes reclaman el control de los “campos sociales” con el fin de legitimar y perpetuar la integridad de las relaciones de desigualdad que las convierten en superiores. La naturaleza de las injusticias surge a través de la mutación de un castigo físico hacia una violencia simbólica, que asegura su perpetuación controlando el campo de la institución educativa. Esta situación prende la mecha social que permea en el ámbito de la literatura y representa al internado como fruto de las relaciones de poder. Mediante el estudio de la …
Del «afuera del pensamiento» al «pensamiento del afuera»: Deleuze entre Blanchot y Foucault
2015
Este escrito comienza por analizar la funcion tan clave como paradojica que cumple el afuera en Deleuze: ser a la vez lo que no puede ser pensado (lo no-representable) y lo que tiene que ser pensado (la consistencia misma de lo no-representable en cuanto da que pensar), para luego senalar las inflexiones que se producen, via Foucault, desde su conceptualizacion blanchotiana hasta su recepcion deleuziana. This dissertation starts by analysing the function, as fundamental as it is paradoxical, that plays the outside in Deleuze: being at the same time that which cannot be thought (the non-representable) and that which has to be thought (the consistency itself of the non-representable as it ind…