Michel Foucault's Theme of "Subjectivation"

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  • M.フーコーにおける《主体化》の主題
  • M フーコー ニオケル シュタイカ ノ シュダイ

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It is generally known that Michel Foucault problematizes the process by which an individual is constituted as a subject in certain relationships, namely "subjectivation". But why does Foucault choose the term "subjectivation" instead of "subject"? In the forepart of this paper, I shall clarify Foucault's peculiar philosophical postulates which require him to treat subjectivity as a sort of construct. First, I emphasize his postulate that an attribute of the subject is the effect of a historical configuration of practices. Then I point out another one of his postulations: that there are various forces within an individual, therefore the individual itself is always already a political thing which ought to be governed. In the later part, based on discussions of the previous part, I shall explore significant implications of the conception of "forms of moral subjectivation" in his last two books. Important points are as follows: (1) Foucault criticizes the conventional belief that only being subject to universal rules made moral subjectivity, (2) he suggests that the high appraisal of universal rules in Western philosophy itself was derived from the transformation of the form of moral subjectivation in Western history.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 17 85-100, 1996

    大阪大学人間科学部社会学・人間学・人類学研究室

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  • CRID
    1390009224804947072
  • NII Article ID
    110004746821
  • NII Book ID
    AN0020011X
  • DOI
    10.18910/10768
  • HANDLE
    11094/10768
  • ISSN
    02865149
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    departmental bulletin paper
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    • JaLC
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    • CiNii Articles

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