Space, Time and the Constitution of Subjectivity: Comparing Elias and Foucault.
The work of Foucault and Elias has been compared before in the social sciences and humanities, but here I argue that the main distinction between their approaches to the construction of subjectivity is the relative importance of space and time in their accounts. This is not just a matter of the "his...
| Publicado en: | Foucault Studies no. 8; pp. 8 - 28 |
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