'The Subject and Power' - Four Decades Later: Tracing Foucault's Evolving Concept of Subjectivation.
Michel Foucault's essay 'The Subject and Power' has seen four decades. It is the most quoted of Foucault's shorter texts and exerts a persistent influence across the social sciences and humanities. The essay merges two main trajectories of Foucault's research in the 1970s: his genealogies of legal-d...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 36; pp. 292 - 321 |
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Sep2024
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