TY - JOUR
T1 - Foucault and the politics of our selves
AU - Allen, Amy
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - Exploring the apparent tension between Foucault's analyses of technologies of domination - the ways in which the subject is constituted by power-knowledge relations - and of technologies of the self - the ways in which individuals constitute themselves through practices of freedom - this article endeavors to makes two points: first, the interpretive claim that Foucault's own attempts to analyse both aspects of the politics of our selves are neither contradictory nor incoherent; and, second, the constructive claim that Foucault's analysis of the politics of our selves, though not entirely satisfactory as it stands, provides important resources for the project of critical social theory.
AB - Exploring the apparent tension between Foucault's analyses of technologies of domination - the ways in which the subject is constituted by power-knowledge relations - and of technologies of the self - the ways in which individuals constitute themselves through practices of freedom - this article endeavors to makes two points: first, the interpretive claim that Foucault's own attempts to analyse both aspects of the politics of our selves are neither contradictory nor incoherent; and, second, the constructive claim that Foucault's analysis of the politics of our selves, though not entirely satisfactory as it stands, provides important resources for the project of critical social theory.
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U2 - 10.1177/0952695111411623
DO - 10.1177/0952695111411623
M3 - Article
C2 - 22324075
AN - SCOPUS:80053984678
SN - 0952-6951
VL - 24
SP - 43
EP - 59
JO - History of the Human Sciences
JF - History of the Human Sciences
IS - 4
ER -