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Sakamoto, Takashi. "Le problème de l'histoire chez Michel Foucault." Bordeaux 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011BOR30013.
Full textHow can philosophy think its outside? What is the limit between philosophy and non-philosophy? The Hegelian philosophy tried to answer those questions by setting up a philosophic totality through dialectics and a certain philosophic way of thinking history. Our goal is to consider this relation between philosophy and non-philosophy that clearly appears in the thought of Michel Foucault, which seeks, all along its course, to free itself from the Hegelian philosophy of totality and of history, by carrying out various historical investigations. For Foucault, the main point is to call into question the naturality of objects, such as madness, crime and sexuality. Foucault constantly brings to light the multiplicity of the empirical forms of objectivation, and of subjection or subjectivation as well, inasmuch as a proliferation of histories goes against Hegel’s dialectical totality of history. As this discharge never ends once and for all, the Foucauldian thought becomes a set of attempts in order to philosophize in the non-philosophy that is history. Being against Hegel always involves thinking with him. Our analysis aims at understanding the Foucauldian efforts, by following their unfolding in the three periods that are the archaeology, the genealogy and the problematisation, and to show how they are formed and transformed around the theme of history, by a series of sometimes very minor changes. In this sense, the thought of Michel Foucault is an examination of philosophy itself facing non-philosophy
Kiéfer, Audrey. "Michel Foucault : le G.I.P., l'histoire et l'action." Amiens, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006AMIE0011.
Full textHan, Béatrice. "Michel Foucault entre l'historique et le transcendantal." Paris 12, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA120004.
Full textInvestigating the problem of the historical and the tanscendantal in michel foucault's works enabled me to reveal the author's most constant preoccupation, which was to give a transposition of the "critical" question of the conditions of possibility of knowledge that would allow it to escape from the deadends of the transcendantal theme (understood as anthropologized). Moreover, studying foucault's three main philosophical sources (kant, nietzsche, heidegger) led me to discover, for each stage of the author's intellectual development, the lack of a sound and consistant enough theoretical foundation. Henceforth, i tried to pinpoint and identify the recurrent guises of the transcendantal theme infoucault's work, mostly by analyzing the notions of "episteme", "historical a priori", "power knowledge" and "problematization"
Leonelli, Massimo R. "Foucault généalogiste, stratège et dialecticien : de l'histoire critique au diagnostic du présent." Paris 10, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA100176.
Full textThe extension of the reflexive view of a genealogy of genealogy itself, which governs the problematisation of Foucault's own research, revolves around three differing pieces of historical writing: History as "the other side of reason" in The History of Madness. This is a work that attempts to escape Hegelism by means of a metamorphosis of Hegelian concepts (derived principally from The Phenomenology of the Spirit and from J. Hyppolite) through their reaction with certain aspects of Nietzschian genealogy. History as the principle of the intelligibility of the historiography of "war", which is the object and criterion of the course, Il faut défendre la société, in which Foucault examines the tools of his own research. The complex and decisive relationship between Foucault's analysis and the analysis of Marx and different forms of Marxism (Lukàcs, Plekhanov, Gramsci, Lefèvre, Althusser, Balibar. . . ) is revealed through their comparisons. From the re-establishment of exact references to Marx to the highlighting of the immense importance of Augustin Thierry, the reconstruction of sources proues the validity of Foucault's thesis. History as the repetition-transformation of the question: "Was ist Aufklarung?", which defines modernity and the very historicity of modernity. The reflexive nature of Foucault's reading of Kant's text allows us to clarify certain disputed points of interpretation (the best illustration being a comparison to Habermas) and to capture a kind of retrospective coherence which is characteristic of the reflected elaboration that follows the experimental process (G. Canguilhem)
Catonné, Jean-Philippe. "Hippocrate, Foucault et l'histoire de la sexualité." Paris 1, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA010574.
Full textIn the last part of his work, Michel Foucault studies the history of sexuality in the greek and roman antiquity. Along with knowledge and power, this reference back to the greeks enables him to introduce a third dimension in his reflexion : that of the ethical subject. Foucault keeps close to a history of human thought based on practices. Dietetic is one of its forms. That of Hippocrates includes the pleasures of love. According to Foucault, behind a "neutrality of principles" between excess and lack, ancient doctors would have regarded sexual activity as a menace of health, and they would have tried to rarefy it. Our analysis differs from his in this respect. We move the "problemization" from the act to its excess. Hippocrates regards the sexual activity that goes beyond the proper mesure to each single, as a danger, but the act in itself is not dangerous at all, and inspires no worry to him. He mentions some blessings of sex and some evil consequencies of abstinence about it, for women especially. As a conclusion, about the classical period, if the analysis made by Foucault applies to the Pythagoro-Platonician tradition, it can't explain Hippcratism entirely. Besides our study includes complemontary considerations, one about hysteria as a manifestation of women oppression
Gros, Frédéric. "Théorie de la connaissance et histoire des savoirs dans les écrits de Michel Foucault : de l'Histoire de la folie à L'Archéologie du savoir." Paris 12, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA120053.
Full textIn this thesis, i tried do treat michel foucault like a philosopher, and to settle his work in a philosophical tradition. The first part emphazies the marxism weight in the young foucault's philosophical education and builds e reading of the second thesis about kant's anthropology. A precise examen leads me to recognize the importance of the <> in the archeological analysis. From these first results i tried to show how the three big archeologies (histoire de la folie, naissance de la clinique, les mots et les choses) ela borate a transcendantal dimension in a problematic relationschip with history. These archeologies are always followed by texts about litterature where foucault finds the experience of origin which stake the phenomenological synthesis wich were his starting points. Reflecting, from a fundamental point of view, the notion of a history of truth, thel last part studies four points : meaning, shape, object, subject. Finally, it's about the very notion of origin that foucault's nietzscheism is going to burst, imposing a definitive incompatibility with every phenomenological approach
Trempe, Simon, and Simon Trempe. "Du rejet de la misère et de son renfermement : commentaire sur l'Histoire de la folie de Michel Foucault." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/37218.
Full textCe mémoire explore un élément essentiel de l'Histoire de la folie de Michel Foucault, à savoir : le geste d'exclusion structurant la culture occidentale. Notre question de recherche est celle-ci : qu'est-ce qui décide de ce qui est exclu de la culture ? L'Histoire de la folie étant un livre vaste, nous nous sommes restreints aux analyses de Foucault allant de la fin du Moyen Âge jusqu'au XVIIe siècle. Cette période offre la possibilité d'observer deux types d'exclusion : la première, la plus archaïque, est celle du lépreux que l'on excluait à l'extérieur de la communauté en raison de son caractère impur, donc sacré. Quant à la seconde, que Foucault a appelée « grand renfermement », elle consiste à enfermer tous les miséreux (dont fait partie le fou) dans des établissements publics, cela en raison de leur caractère irréductible à la norme du travail. C'est du point de vue des oppositions que nous avons voulu interroger ce qui motive le geste d'exclusion. Ainsi, à nos trois chapitres correspondent trois oppositions : le pur et l'impur ; la Raison et la folie ; l'homogène et l'hétérogène. Également, pour ce mémoire, nous avons privilégié une approche intertextuelle : au premier chapitre, nous y avons incorporé le texte de Roger Caillois, L'homme et le sacré ; au second, le texte de Nietzsche, La Naissance de la tragédie ; au troisième, enfin, le texte de Georges Bataille, La structure psychologique du fascisme. Ces trois textes se penchent tous à leur manière sur le problème de l'exclusion au sein de la culture occidentale et ce faisant, permettent de mieux saisir la portée du geste d'exclusion avancé par Foucault.
Prokob, Emmanuel. "Enquête sur l'antagonisme franco-allemand dans l'histoire." Paris, EHESS, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015EHES0100.
Full textA notable parallel is the starting point of the inquiry: the arguments used during the debate between Jiirgen Habermas and Michel Foucault in 1983 remind those of the controversy between French and German intellectuals during the first world war. The thus outlined antagonism belongs to the field of representations, it can be described by two specific features: first, at critical times the conflicting discourses tend to present themselves as "scientific", second, each of them claims to be the adequate representation of liberty that is at the base of all modern political and social legitimacy The antagonism recasts the problem of the representability of liberty that runs through the history of occidental thought. Transcending the borderlines between specific disciplines, i. E. Between humanities, social sciences, arts and literature, philosophy or theology, this problem calls for a genre of its own, the inquiry, defined and elaborated by this dissertation itself. Linked to that of the war controversy the study of the debate between Habermas and Foucault provides the means for this task: putting its findings directly into practice, the dissertation develops its own hermeneutic and produces the antagonism's frame of interpretation. Thereby the historical gap between both a peculiar German and French interpretation of liberty can be overcome
Huh, Kyoung. "Michel Foucault et la modernité." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007STR20003.
Full textThe word Modern in the thought of Foucault has to be conceived as a proper noun : "Modern" has its first conventional meaning, a historical period. The second, epistemic, meaning concerns the notion épistémè which designates the determining epistemological factor of an each era. .
Malette, Sébastien. "La «gouvernementalité» chez Michel Foucault." Thesis, Université Laval, 2006. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2006/23836/23836.pdf.
Full textGuilleux, Alain. "Bonheur et politique chez Michel Foucault." Paris 4, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA040072.
Full textA careful reading of the works of Michel Foucault allows to reveal - through his thought and militant activity extending to thirty intensely rich and complicated years - the central demand which sustends it: that of happiness and its reference to politics. In order that this word of happiness have a meaning, the feasibility of a "counter-knowledge" and a "counter-behavior" must have its own being and must of course be investigated by any member in democratic societies
Adorno, Francesco. "Vérité et sujet chez Michel Foucault." Paris 8, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA080974.
Full textThe works of foucault bring about an ensemble of problems in which we tried to treat in this work. From one period to another, we encounter a diversity of tone, style and subject among the works the destination and purpose seem uncertain. In particular, two moments reflect this discontinuity: between l'archeologie du savoir et surveiller et punir, foucault changes or seems to change methods; between la volonte de savoir et l'usage des plaisirs et le souci de soi, the project even of a story of sexuality seems to orient itself in a different way. In our opinion, the changes which accent foucault's path represent different moments of the same questioning that can be explained in different ways, but does not constitute less of a coherent path. In our opinion, foucault's fundamental problem was always disecting the processes of subject formation, and making clearer the knowledge which discreetly participates in his constitution. This hypothesis is based on the research of "literary" works: a collection of articles by literary critics; on the other hand we studied the inedited between 1976 and 1984. The first part of this research allowed us to confirm that already at the beginning of the 60's, foucault thought about a series of concepts that will be the basis of his archeo-genealogical method. The second part of this work allowed us to establish the existance of a certain graduality between 1976 and 1984 : in l'usage des plaisirs, foucault does not mention the genealogy of. .
Shim, Se-Kwan. "Histoire, discours, littérature chez Michel Foucault." Paris 10, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA100014.
Full textShinkai, Yasuyuki. "L'invisible visible : études sur Michel Foucault." Paris, EHESS, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999EHES0037.
Full textCoelho, de Souza Sandra. "L'éthique de Michel Foucault." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100118.
Full textMy thesis shout Michel Foucault is mostly concerned by Foucault’s thought between "madness and civilization" (1960) and "history of sexuality" (1984). If one considers the thesis bibliography, it's possible to understand that Foucault’s work considered by me as more important of his thought is not always proposed by Foucault’s books; many articles and interviews elucidate the aims and trajectory of Foucault. This is the reason why they play an important role in the thesis. During one of his stays in Berkeley (October 1980), Foucault explain the themes of his ethics: "I am a moralist, insofar as a believe that one of the tasks, one of the meanings of human existence - the source of human freedom - is never to accept anything as definitiven untouchable, obvious or immobile" (history of the present, spring 1980). In this interview conducted by m. Bess, Foucault exposes the three elements of his moral thought. They are: "(1) the refusal to accept as self-evident the things that are proposed to us" - it concerns the first chapter of my thesis(l'experience fondamentale); "(2)the need to analyses and to know, since we can accomplishe nothing without reflexion and understanding thus the principle of curiosity" - it concerns la problematisation
Goumaz, Christophe. "Visages et marges de la philosophie de Michel Foucault." Lyon 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997LYO31012.
Full textIn his work, michel foucault suggests that phenomena should be approched through what constitutes their limit (law through crime and prison, normaly through madness. . . ). We, in our turn, have applied this method to foucault's work, which we have revisited, starting our study from its collateral works. We offer a singular reading of his work, relying mamily on his dits et ecrits. We have enhanced the value of the notion of ascesis, and asked more globally the question of the subject and subjectivation in a work witch intends to do without reference to its author. "who is subject?" "what is the event?" foucault's ascesis is a specific form of ascesis, devoted to the double task of downgrading and the making of the self. According to us, it opens out, by the practices it involves, on to a space of its own, which has to be characterized (fiction, distance, awe. . . ). Through this approach, we get back to the question of archives and their relation to history, with its political implications
Zengin, Ayse Nilüfer. "Corps et vérité chez Michel Foucault." Paris 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA010536.
Full textHaddouche, Zahir. "La question du temps et du présent chez Michel Foucault." Paris 8, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA083459.
Full textThe foucaldian company attempts to draw a critico-historic diagnosis of our culture to write the history of the present. Through this attachment in the question of the present, It is question in this thesis to show " beyond the breaks, beyond the methodological changes " that between the archaeologist ( 1961 ), the genealogist ( 1975 ) and the "last one Foucault ( 1984 )", there is strong links and not breaks of the methodological failures or even bends. Our analysis attempts to reveal the footbridges which bind (connect) these " three periods ": the first works on the knowledge and that where Foucault wonders about the problem of the knowledge and the power in that, later, where Foucault concentrates mainly on the study of the texts of the Greco-Roman philosophy
Basso, Elisabetta. "Michel Foucault et la "Daseinanalyse" : une enquête méthodologique." Paris 1, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA010530.
Full textGagnon, Simon-Olivier. "Michel Foucault et le souci de soi dans l'Antiquité." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33943.
Full textWe propose a study on the culture of the care of the self in Antiquity, as it is exposed and interpreted by Michel Foucault in his course Herméneutique du sujet at the Collège de France. Based on the interpretation of the texts of the principal Latin philosophers of imperial Stoicism (Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius), the dissertation brings together the elements of a Foucaldian theory of the subject. The first part deals with Foucault’s perspective on the "genesis" of the subject, with regard to the "techniques of the self " through which one rationalizes oneself. The second part situates the subject that is elaborated in the practical experience of the relation to oneself, in asceticism and discipline, with regard to the relation to the other, to the body, to knowledge and to language. The last part presents the historical context in which the injunction to self-care has become an ethical imperative. It is then suggested that the crisis of Athenian democracy at the end of the 5th century played a significant role in the emergence of the Socratic injunction, and that the latter echoes the ruling classes on the political incompetence of the masses. The care of the self and the constant exercise of self-control then appear as prerequisites for participation in political life and common decisions. The culture of the self slowly change with the decline of the City- State, Roman domination, and the Hellenization of Rome, while reaching its peak in the High Empire. The culture of the self ends in the Christian construction of a culture of renunciation. It is asserted then that in each of these historical configurations, the culture of the self has fulfilled an important social function, but each time different.
Sardinha, Diogo. "Ordre et temps dans la philosophie de Michel Foucault." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100106.
Full textThe writings of Foucault are astonishing for the all but inexplicable way in which they invite us to suspend our beliefs regarding the history of either a problem or an institution – indeed, even the history of our own society. But how is this extraordinary feat accomplished ? Foucault develops his archaeology and genealogy along three main axes of the human experience: knowledge, power, and ethics. But do these all follow the same temporal restraints ? He claims that they are dominated by two distinct temporalities. One is superficial and continuous; the other is basic but discontinuous. Towards the end of his life, Foucault sketched a new research program, which he called "a historical and critical ontology of ourselves". This program requires a perspective that is at once epistemological, political, and ethical. For Foucault, it is no longer acceptable to use a single or dual axis, such as the power-knowledge axis, in order to pursue his research. Three are necessary. Foucault tells us that the interaction between knowledge, power, and ethics should be understood from a systematic point of view. But what exactly does this mean ? For we know that his work has always been in opposition to any idea of a system of thought ? Foucault was able to formulate the necessity of a "systematic" thought because his work already had an essential coherence to it. This coherence is inextricably linked to the three realms of experience: they all are divided in two strata ; the first one is immediately accessible, and the second one is mediated, and radical. In this scheme, the dimension of time necessarily overlaps with the dimension of order
Favreau, Jean-François. "L' espace littéraire de / selon Michel Foucault." Paris 7, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA070021.
Full textThis work follows the motive of literature in the whole work of Michel Foucault. Literature appears as a documentary material witnessing to modemity and its madness, a way to defy classical philosoph/s fundaments, a preserved space for a mysticism of language, as well as a challenging stimulation for the thinking. Then, discourse about literature represents a thinking laboratory, making visible the biggest impulses, changes and intuitions of Foucault. As an historian, critic and philosopher, he approached this exception zone where the specific rule challenges the automatisms of the law. Its space successively appears as a carnival, abyss, laboratory or battlefield. In its radical isolation, the very structured and mirroring literary space represents for Foucault a repeated occasion for a step aside, and a companion against/for philosophy. Here we can find the same questions Foucault asked in his major books (what he called "serious" discourse), but from a different point of view: what does it mean to be "against"? who speaks? how to change the angle of thinking? what is modernity ? What should appear after humanity? To manage this study, we had to go through Foucault's own references and readings: the decisive input of the generation of Bataille, Blanchot and Klossowski, the singular works of Roussel or Sade, the neighbourhood of Barthes, Derrida and Sollers. Fiction seemed to us a relevant criterion to think the work of Foucault as a whole. It's a way to take into consideration the geography and the dramaturgy of his thinking; it is both the place and the operating mode that Foucault uses to change and build his own trajectory. Fiction, in Foucault's work, finally appears as a pattern in which the writing and the building of a life affect each other
Laarissa, Mohamed Mustapha. "Epistème, discours, pouvoir chez Michel Foucault." Paris 1, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA010520.
Full textThis work intends to study three notions essential to Foucault : episteme, speech, power as referring at the same time to different phasis in the theoritical evolution of the author. So the question is to observe a thought in its moments of mutation, even of erisis. Consequently, we are concerned with an opened work, in a perpetual removal. That verifies the methodological importance of "l'archeologie du savoir". Meanwhile, if such a work reveals itsely very important for our study, it's not because it takes place in a reflexive form of a "theory of the method" but because it establishes a new object for history: the speech, regarded here with a differential point of view and no more with a totalising one, as it was with "les mots et les choses". Therefore, the two works stumble on the same obstacle : the reducing explanation of knowledge by knowledge. "surveiller et punir" and "la volonte de savoir" will outline admirably that dilemna in developing by the hypothesis of a necessary correlation between knowledge and power, what will be the elaboration of a new point of view on power : the relationnal point of view. But Foucault will paradoxically present power in its relation with resistance (which is opposed to it) : an omnipresent power, and a resistance which can only be then obliged to resort to a third dimension which is not reducible neither to knowledge nor to power : the dimension of the subjectivation, such as the Foucault's two last work, "l'usage des plaisirs "and" le souci de soi" present it to us. Foucault's thought will then finally take on the form of a triple historical ontology of knowledge, power and subjectivation (and not of subject)
Bilba, Corneliu. "La fin de la modernité et la critique de la représentation Michel Foucault." Lille 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005LIL30010.
Full textYu, Qizhi. "Epistémè chez M. Foucault ou : la mort de l'homme." Aix-Marseille 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AIX10025.
Full textAbe, Takashi. "La méthode archéologique de Michel Foucault : le statut du sujet." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100006.
Full textIn this study, the works of Foucault were chronologically examined. Analysis was made on the development of his philosophical method known as archaeology, and on its dominant topic : the subject. Foucault treated the concept of subject as an operational concept, through which his research was realized. Through the 1960s, in parallel with the development of archaeology, he criticized the epistemic function of the subject, which was the very basis of Human Sciences. At the end of the 1960s, through a radical reconstruction of the archaeological method, he discovered a new object of research the discourse. On the basis of such methodological change, the new research examined the status of the subject differently. The concept of "subjectification" was introduced in order to describe a dynamic process interrelated with the function of power, in which subjectivity is formed. This process of subjectification further introduced the dimension of ethics
Bellahcène, Driss. "Michel Foucault et le savoir pouvoir." Paris 8, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA082375.
Full textThe topic of this thesis is to analyse the connexion between knowledge and power in Foucault's works. First the power is an exercice, a mecanism. It can't be possessed. Neither knowledge nor power can overwhelm one another or be confused. There is a mutual capture. Truth must be understood as a complex network between knowledge and power (as a conflictual force field). Also the link between subjectivity and truth can't be reduced the game for power. Knowledge points out strata, files as strata. . . It is then what power integrates himself and explains and is explained by it. As a mecanism, power is not limited to contain forms of knowledge-power but generates effects of power and products knowledge. Foucault presents two examples of this acting productivity : discipline (police of behaviour) and sexuality. The discipline as technology of taming, is a concentration of forms of knowledge-power controling the subject in order to turn to automatism the subject body's functions, to extract the more possible and economicaly usefull force and to prevent resistance. The connexion between subjectivity and truth can't be resumed only to the connexion with power and knowledge : it escapes the sexuality mecanism. Telling truths would be like playing the game for power with his domination stategies
Shimizu, Yudai. "La technique et l'Être chez Michel Foucault." Thesis, Lille 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LIL3H013.
Full textThis work is aimed at clearing how Foucault elaborated his critique of the man as central figure in the modern episteme: problem which he had taken from the anti-humanist thinking widely spread in the France after the World War II. In doing so, the philosopher invented a new form of knowledge that couldn’t be reduced to the modern knowledge centered on the man as a “doublet empirico-transcendantal”. Then, what is it that this new form of knowledge? In our thesis, we try to show that, for Foucault, this new knowledge consisted of the ‘play of technic (jeu de la technique)’. Though the two concepts – play and technic – aren’t subject of previous research, nor of the philosopher’s own texts, the thought on them can be found, according to us, from his first work to his last Cours au Collège de France, inculding his work on the power and the ‘political technology of the body’. Through our research, we clarify, on the one hand, that the technic in a foucauldian sens means the ‘impersonal production of forms in the positivity of language and body’; from this point of view, it isn’t based neither on the subject nor object, but it does produce various forms of subject and object. On the other hand, we defend that the concept of ‘Being (Être)’ is considered by him as a ‘play of truth’ or the ‘strategy of truth’ which take place in the order of the ‘positive’, not in that of the ‘fundamental’. Throughout our analysis of all his works – from beginning to end –, the purpose of our thesis is to demonstrate that it is on the basis of his reflection upon this play of technics that he was able to develop his critique of the modern episteme as well as the man. To do so, our thesis will advance in the following five steps: 1. to explain how Foucault described the appearance of the man at the threshold of modern age; 2. to define his concept of knowledge in the support of his early texts on the play of language ; 3. to show the relation between positivity of the technic and strategy of the truth in the light of his works on the power and the political technology of body ; 4. to clarify the connection between the technic of the self (technique de soi) and the technology of the self (technologie de soi); 5. to explain the problematization which, in discussing the notion of ‘parehsia’
Frackowiak, Mathieu. "Histoire et vérité chez Michel Foucault." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040235.
Full textWith this PhD, I propose a reading of Foucault – and particularly the « Cours au Collège de France » which deals with three questions. First, how to think through the historic work of Foucault, the operations which characterize that work and its fictional dimension? Second, what kind of importance do foucaldian “genealogies” carry for Truth in History and their way of practicing historical studies? And last, can we say that there is a foucaldian history? My work demonstrate that, in Michel Foucault’s thinking, Truth – and the way we write the history of Truth in Western Thought – organizes History, a role which has been described in the thesis as “eugenics” because of its consequences on the order of discourses, in science and, consequently, on real and possible ways of living for human beings. We try to think, therefore, against that eugenics and to characterize the way Foucault practiced history, and to understand the consequences of this practice on philosophy?
Amironesei, Razvan. "Biopouvoir et nihilisme à partir de l'oeuvre de Michel Foucault." Thesis, Université Laval, 2013. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2013/29996/29996.pdf.
Full textThe objective of this dissertation is to examine the contemporary formation of a nihilism of biopower from a critical analysis of Michel Foucault’s work. We begin by formulating a genealogy of his notion of power, doubled by a critique of his treatment of disciplinary violence. In this context, we show that violence is inextricably linked to the « real » of disciplinary power, which is unrepresentable in itself and that one must understand in terms of a immanent and permanent form of « excess ». Second, this genealogy of power allows to put forward our analysis of contemporary biopolitics. We show that the object of biopolitics is not defined by the necessary intervention on the organic mass of living populations as Foucault suggests, but is rather the effect of a process of continuous production and subjectification of a « bios », seen as the emergence of a specific form of life elaborated at the intersection of practices of freedom and a politics of coercion. Third, this nihilism of disciplinary power and biopolitics is analyzed from a theological-political injunction of infinite perfectibility of « bios ». Thus, our concept of nihilism does not involve a axiological depreciation of life but rather is a mechanism of power which « affirms » quasi-exhaustively the way of life of a biopolitical individual. The modality of resistance to nihilism is discussed through the critical investigation of the foucaldian notion of withdrawal or distanciation of the self from itself (la déprise de soi). This notion along with the « loss of the self » are conceptualized not as a form of liberation from the nihilism of biopower, but rather as a potential transformation of its contemporary expression.
Bert, Jean-François. "Proximité, réserve et emprunt : la place de Michel Foucault dans la sociologie française." Paris 8, 2006. http://octaviana.fr/document/121320960#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textDuring the past quarter century Michel Foucault's theories have gained admittance to the domain of French social sciences, most notably that of sociology, though not without difficulty. Whereas previously sociologists remained indifferent or, in some cases, looked down on Foucault's work, his theories are now being acknowledged as relevant - gaining a new status as objects of interest. Within a contemporary framework, the reception and spread of Foucault's theories demonstrates a pointed evolution. In order to effectively analyse the modes in which this borrowing occurs, the transference and transformation of three particular notions within the framework of contemporary French sociology will be closely examined: "rationalisation", "normalisation" and "body", notions which were continuously re-visited and elaborated upon by Foucault, particularly within his critical analysis of social formations
Refaa, Magda. "La notion de gouvernementalité chez Foucault : gouvernement contre gouvernement." Thesis, Paris 8, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA080137/document.
Full textThis thesis will try to examine at first, the way Foucault establishes his notion of criticism, conceived as an attitude, an "ethos", a way of acting, and which articulates in an ontology of the present. And secondly, the way in which this notion of criticism, as reformulated in a history of governmentality and inseparable from the diagnosis of a crisis inscribed in the folds of the plays of power, articulates with an analysis of his own of the liberalism and the neoliberalism, and such as he conceives not as ideology, but as two forms of government, and of complex governmental rationality. This is the way we try to follow how Foucault elaborates his critical project, by trying to locate the way in which Foucault seeks to establish a diagnosis of what we are in our present, by the critical analysis of this type of rationality which belongs to the modern western societies, and which is characterized by an individualizing and totalizing double face. At the same time, it is an attempt to develop a strategy of resistance, and to "promote new forms of subjectivity"; to emancipate ourselves from that "type of individuality that has been imposed upon us for several centuries". This rationality according to Foucault finds its anchor point in "Aufklärung". This brings us to question at first the relationship between the criticism and the Auflklärung that leads him to place his own critical project with regards to the Kantian theory. Foucault questions the relationship between rationalization and power. For him, it is useless to analyze this rationality belonging to the Enlightenment. He will propose another way of studying the links between rationality and power: at first by handling the rationalization of society and culture, not in a global way, but in several experiences as the madness, the disease, the sexuality Etc. Then, in spite of the importance of the Enlightenment, it is necessary tells us Foucault to go back to far more remote processes, such as that of the pastoral power, to understand the moment in which we live. According to Foucault indeed, the pastoral power gave rise to an art of government which intervenes in politics from the XVIth century, forming the historical background of governmentality. Foucault specifies "the modern state is born ... when governmentality has indeed became a calculated and reflective political practice". One of the fundamental questions of this era after feudalism is "How to govern? ". This question is not dissociated from this other question: "How can we not be governed like that by this in the name of these principles? ". This question is, according to Foucault, on the side of mistrust and resistance to the government. But it also expresses an aspiration to govern otherwise. Around this is constructed the notion of the "critical attitude". Criticism can then get on as "an art of voluntary inservitude" very close, according to Foucault, to the way Kant defines "Aufklärung" as an exit of the state of minority. It is well a question of refusing to obey the truth insofar as it is thought, imposed by another, and to think for oneself. Indeed, the critical attitude to Foucault consists in rethinking the question of Kant's "Aufklärung", not as the dawn of reason, but as permanent effort to question the rationality that governs us. This leads Foucault to question the role of philosophy, whether it can play a role of counter-power. His answer is that philosophy can be counter-power on condition of ceasing to conceive power from a legal or moral point of view. The role of philosophy will then be dice to make visible what is in our daily life, linked to ourselves and because of that which we do not perceive as such. This helps to intensify the struggles, tactics and strategies within power relations
Watier, Patrick. "La sociologie et les représentations du lien social." Paris 5, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA05H010.
Full textLeclercq-Vandelannoitte, Aurélie. "Le contrôle organisationnel et les systèmes d'information mobiles : Une approche foucaldienne." Paris 9, 2008. https://portail.bu.dauphine.fr/fileviewer/index.php?doc=2008PA090023.
Full textThe last innovations in the field of communication networks and information technology have led to the development of mobile information systems (IS). Disrupting the organizational spatial and global borders, mobile IS may lead to new ways of organizing and working. A paradox characterizes mobile IS, as they may simultaneously be considered as means of autonomy and control. That is why we question traditional ways of organizing and management, as regards hierarchical and control relationships, following mobile IS introduction in firms. Our theoretical analysis, which draws on organization control research and IS-organization interaction literature, proposes a conceptual framework based on Michel FOUCAULT’s work. We develop a qualitative and abductive research, inscribed in a dialogical perspective. A four case studies analysis, based on 73 interviews and 6 days of observation, enables to adapt and to enrich our conceptual framework. Three kinds of results are identified. We put forward links between organizational discourses, systems of control and individual reactions during mobile IS implementation. We then realize a political model of IS deployment, based on Foucault’s framework. Last, we build a genealogy of relationships between control, surveillance, information and IS
Chevallier, Philippe. "Michel Foucault et le christianisme." Thesis, Paris Est, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PEST0030.
Full textThere are constant references to Christianity in Michel Foucault’s work. This continuing interest forms part of a wider philosophical questioning of our present: the effort to understand what constitutes us, today, as subjects of ourselves, within relations of knowledge and power, requires an interrogation about the specificity of the relation to self which the West has since the early centuries of the Christian era. Our thesis proposes a comprehensive critical study of these Christian references in Foucault, seeking to throw light on their rules of reading and interpretation, and paying particular attention to the unpublished lecture series Du gouvernment des vivants (1979-80). The study is partitioned into three levels, not arranged in strict chronological sequence: (1) objects ; (2) readings ; (3) interpretations. The first part of our work shows how Christianity became, from 1978, a whole object of study for Foucault, exempt from the general dissolution of major historical entities which had been initially an effect of his aracheological and genealogical methods. An analysis of the Christian phenomenon over a long timespan was made possible by two notions which make it possible to avoid the pitfalls of essentialism: « governmentality » (introduced in Security, Territoty, population) and « regimes of truth » (in « Du gouvernement des vivants »). The second part pays attention to the way our philosopher reads the Christian texts, one which is marked by distinctive inflexions over the whole course of his trajectory. Looking at the handling of he patristic corpus, which forms the topic of several lectures in 1978 and 1980, we can survey not only Foucault’s choice of primary and secondary sources, but also examine in detail his translating practice. In the third part, we try finally to encompass Foucault’ general interpretation of Christianity, from the early studies on madness and literature in the 1960s to those of the 1980s devoted to techniques of living. This interpretation does not develop by itself, but is always juxtaposed to considerations on Greco-Roman antiquity. Far from offering a facile image of an ascetic and intransigent Christianity, Foucault defines Christianity’s originality as the recognition and paradoxical institution of an instrinsically fragile relation to truth
Hwedi, Nafati. "La relation entre l'individu et le pouvoir dans la philosophie de Michel Foucault." Besançon, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007BESA1005.
Full textFoucault suggests analysing a new shape of power by exceeding the former shape " to let live " or " make die ". These analyses take a determined point (history) to penetrate to the archipelagos of various powers. Foucault worries to distinguish, in these processes, the truth which belongs solely to the power
Aidara, Chérif Abdourahmane. "La notion de déviance dans la philosophie de Michel Foucault." Paris 10, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA100124.
Full textInstead of to reduce itself to an area, the work of michel foucault proceeds to the cross-roads of various disciplines. In our perspective, we do not propose a new study of the history on the thought of foucault. We wish, concerning what we consider as a problematisation on the abnormality, to make rise a meditation that could be set out the next manner: in which measure a problematisation on the abnor, mality can be accompanied by the work of foucault, if we consider this constant link in its researches between the gap to the norm on the one hand, the society and the policies on the other hand. The true question remains to know if it can exist a society in which the power doesn't need abnormalities, illegalisms. Does not the penal machinery, as noted foucault, have for function, rather than to aim to the extinction of the abnormalities, to aim on the contrary to their control, to their maintenance in a certain balanced state which could economically be useful and politically fertile? To reply to this question we have envisaged the connection between the subject and the games of truth from either the coercive practices as in the case of the psychiatry and the penitentiary system, either through the practices of oneself that, according to foucault, represents an important phenome, non in our societies since the greek and roman period, even if it has not been sufficiently studied. Power, truth and abnormal subject, here are therefore the three axes from which we have ex, amined the work of foucault before determining it exact impact in the judicial and penal, epistemology
Hortonéda, Jeanine. "Deux contemporains Michel Foucault et Gilles Deleuze : convergences, divergences, résurgences." Toulouse 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009TOU20115.
Full textFoucault and Deleuze: two philosophers, two contemporaries with an unusual career whose meeting and mutual acknoledgement throws a glimmering ligth on each other's thinking. By comparing Foucault's and Deleuze's texts, one can find out how concepts –even philosophical practices– pass and transform from one to the other. Their asymmetrical respective publications put into relief perspectives on topical questions theoretical and political common commitments, particulary on the issue of relationships between politics and subjectivization practices; How the subject came into being through desire, and how the body harnesses its pleasures –caught between subjection to and desubjection from – give rise to an array of questions about what a life that would be free from the concept of subject, êthopoiétique, alêthurgique, in a word, a philosophical life can be. Two philosophers concerned with the event – even though Deleuze's notion of transformation does not coincide with Foucault's genealogical and archeological approach – who share the same sharp sense of criticism in order to provide a new vision of thought and foster the resurgence of an ethical questioning after the “dead of man” and the “dead of God”
Baron, Marine. "Norme et volonté chez Michel Foucault." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H213.
Full textIn Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault highlights the fact that the sentences handed down against convicts, that were formerly exercising directly on their bodies, are now exercised on their souls, and more precisely on their will. To change the individual by the norm by exerting an influence on his own will, which is nevertheless commonly associated with an irreducible character, is the paradoxical challenge of the normative power, at least of the relations or relations of power defined by Foucault. Through a sociological and psychological approach, the individual is apprehended by the judicial authority as if it were largely the result of determinism. It is by changing his environment that one could change his behavior, that one would make his out -of-the-ordinary will a normed will. However, these attempts presented as remedies have a mixed effectiveness. Prison, for example, which maintains mechanisms of exclusion and forgetfulness of individuals can only fail to normalize individual wishes because it cultivates within it the "deviant wills", as if to perpetuate illegalisms necessary to preserve power relations within society. But how can the norm affect individual will? It seems that the thought of Michel Foucault highlighting the failures of the action of the normative power on the individual will has found in this certain current legal answers, for example in the recent establishment of procedures of the plea-guilty, by the setting, eventually forgotten, of an age of sexual consent or by multiplying alternatives to prison
Schottmann, Franziska. "Visages du langage : Michel Foucault face à la littérature (1961-1969)." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070067.
Full textThere is a "being of language. " Based on this simple affirmation, Michel Foucault's writings on literature unfold a large and ramified network evolving by the subtle play of difference and repetition. By discussing Foucault's essays and articles dealing with literature, the question arises of how language contributes to the construction of thinking. How can a gesture of writing create a way of thinking and which are the specific forms and concepts of this thinking? Or, to speak with Foucault, what means "thinking and talking"? In our discussion of Foucault's notion of a "being of language", it becomes apparent that language has a strictly fictional dimension that subverts any reflexive and self-conscious speech. When the syntax of sentences prefigures the architecture of a thought, the gap opened up by the conjunction "and" in "thinking and talking" reveals the purely literai and material dimension of language. Foucault's notion of "being of language" that is neither a concept nor a pure phrase is not the basis for a stable ontology linked to a ontological founded poetic but the ironic reversal of any attempt of poetologicai formalization. Thus, the goal of this study is the patient deployment of the textual echoes and the maze of motifs that, far from asserting Foucault's books as defined units, dissolves them while creating new and very different links between them
Marinho, Ernandes Reis. "La vision de l'homme chez Foucault." Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010621.
Full textKozlowski, Michal. "Fonctions du discours et figures du sujet : Michel Foucault, théoricien de la liberté." Paris, EHESS, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EHES0073.
Full textMichel Foucault is often perceived as the one willing to deconstruct the very idea of the subject. In my analysis I attempt to show the contrary. Foucault's cautious work aims at the reconstruction of the concept of the subject in order to think it through both it its limitations and the possibilities to realiza its freedom. In that perspective I account for two key notions that Foucault works out : the one of the actuality abd the one of the genealogy. I introduce in Foucault theoretical structure the spinozian concept of conatus understood, as permanent will of the self-constitution of a subject by the subject. These three notions together let me account for political strategies of emancipation in the Foucaultian sense. The main argument developed in my dissertation leads to the conclusion that Michel Foucault far from being a new conservatism offers as a matter of the new visions of progressivism, a skeptical one perhaps but genuinely mature
Shim, Jaiwon. "Michel Foucault : liberté, pouvoir et leur histoire : introduction thématique à son anthropologie nominaliste." Paris 10, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA100086.
Full textThis thesis consists of four parts: I. Archaeology and genealogy, II. Micropower and government, III. Liberty and care of self, IV. Birth of nominalist anthropology. In part I, archaeology evolves toward a critical-rational method, while genealogy applies to the polemical position against the theoretical-speculative visions of the world. Part II deals with the micropower Foucault reveals with “discipline” as total individualising socio-control. Then the micropower reveals itself as physical-moral relations of power which enable this “discipline” to exist. Nevertheless, it integrates the nominalist conception of power as strategic relation between social agents. And it is in this context that we find the forerunner of the conception of “government”. As power consists in “government” (a conducting relation between free individuals), it is no longer opposed to individual liberty as practice of the self-subjectifying will. This conception of liberty treated in part III is drawn from the histories of the “care of self”. Foucault problematizes this care of self with the “techniques of self” which accompany it as practical matrix. In fact, he repositions them in the context of the care of self with “the greatness of mind”. Concerning nominalism (which is treated in part IV), Foucault asserts that history takes an interest in the factual truths of specific events. Thus nominalism joins Foucault's anthropology as his found-again ultimate horizon. This renewed tendency means there is a nominalist return to anthropology
Sforzini, Arianna. "Scènes de la vérité : Michel Foucault et le théâtre." Thesis, Paris Est, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PESC0023/document.
Full textWhat meaning, value, relevance for philosophical thought and political practice is possible to ascribe to the concept of theatrum philosophicum, of “philosophy-theatre”? The present research explores possible answers to these questions starting from the analysis of Michel Foucault's works. By focusing on the theatrical concepts, texts, tools and stylistic devices used by Foucault, my aim is to investigate how theatre can contribute to philosophy, when philosophy is not meant to become asystematic project but rather a creative practice.To this end, I examine a series of notions related to the semantic field of theatre, taking into account Foucault's enterprise as a whole : the tragic and tragedy; the theme of the double; the notion of simulacra; the fictional writing; the “dramatics” and dramaturgies of truth; the political and resistant scenes of the bodies. Through all these research axes, theatre reveals itself as an extremely fruitful device to call into question the traditional Western philosophical discourse. Theatre is a way to rethink the theoretical and practical relevance of Foucault's philosophy, without reducing it to abstract, universal, and preordained formulas. Drawing a path between theatre and philosophy (or better, an analytical framework that employs theatre to rethink the place and the role of philosophy), and accepting the ambiguities of anindirect and metaphorical use of the theatrical conceptuality, I formulate a clear hypothesis: thanks to its powers of repetition, duplication and public test, theatre is a form of philosophical experience, which emblematically conveys the critical attitude lying at the heart of Foucault's philosophy. Theatre helps conceive the activity of thinking as a concrete practice of transformation, which changes the forms of relation the self has to her/himself and to others. Theatre is not an esthetical and marginal dimension of Foucault's works, but rather the fil rouge that connects them as a movement of shifting, displacing and perpetual re-elaboration of our own mode of looking at the world and at our subjectivity. Foucault's theatrum-philosophicum is a way to rethink philosophy as a political performance
Koll, Peter. "Risque et naturalité. De la naissance de l'objet 'société' et la (dé-)subjectivation : une généalogie." Paris 8, 2011. http://octaviana.fr/document/156506394#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textThe object of the following text appears as a genealogy of risk. This appearance is conveyed first through a reading of the sociological meaning risk has taken, according to which risk concerns the very structure of modern society. Thus the genealogy we undertake will concern the birth of the object called 'society', which indeed appears firstly as a new type of objectivity. In order to grasp the meaning of this latter concept, understood as a discursive function, we propose to 'read' – in the texts of so-called classical sociology – "society" as a function on a (discursive) field of naturality. Based on this thesis an account is developed of the paradoxical nature of naturality, which paradox can be expressed as the 'internal outside of society'. This paradox will allow us to fully appreciate the genealogical meaning of risk, which will then appear as the dispositif that expresses and reinforces the paradox which is inherent to the nature of society
Frietsch, Ute. "L'"Introduction à l'anthropologie de Kant" de Michel Foucault : résumé et critique." Paris 8, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA082072.
Full textMartins, Victor Mendonça Nobre. "L'Oedipe selon Foucault : Foucault lecteur et non-lecteur de Freud à travers le «complexe d’Oedipe»." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019USPCC069.
Full textFoucault's work, from the 1970s until his death in 1984, was marked by a critique of the "Oedipus complex", a concept essential to Freud. The radicalism of Foucault's critics would have implied, on the one hand, a certain distance from the psychoanalysts of his works and, on the other hand, that his readers take a certain distance from the Freudian letter. A fundamental detail to the understanding of this difficult interlocution: the references of the philosopher to the "Oedipus complex" were always formulated without presenting to his readers any quote from Freud. From within his own text, which systematically refers to the work of the psychoanalyst, Foucault summoned each time his interlocutor without ever giving him the floor. What reading of Freud would he have done? How could he write so much on the "Oedipus complex" without ever mentioning Freud? In order to identify the modalities, the aspects, the forms of this erased reading operation, we will approach the main Foucaldian references to the "Oedipus complex" and their negative logic
Bourgoin-Castonguay, Simon. "Entre histoire et vérité : Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault : généalogie du sujet, herméneutique du soi et anthropologie." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25206.
Full textCette thèse cherche, par le biais des concepts d’histoire et de vérité, à placer en position de dialogue deux des plus grands philosophes français contemporains : Paul Ricœur et Michel Foucault. L’hypothèse avancée est que l’histoire du concept de subjectivité oscille entre la volonté de savoir et le désir de comprendre. Ces deux postures, irréductibles l’une à l’autre, inaugurent les deux méthodes à l’étude : une généalogie du sujet relevant d’une historicisation de la volonté de vérité (Foucault) et une herméneutique du soi érigée dans le besoin d’interpréter notre finitude (Ricœur). Alors que Ricœur élabore une anthropologie philosophique voulant prendre en charge la capacité interprétative de l’homme, Foucault développe pour sa part une critique de notre « âge anthropologique de la raison » (la modernité). Mais en dépit de cet écart apparent, tant l’herméneutique que la généalogie demeurent fondées dans une pensée de la finitude. Celle-ci motive une critique de la philosophie de l’histoire ainsi qu’une critique de son corollaire, la philosophie de la conscience : Foucault et Ricœur proposent ainsi deux images inversées d’une même problématisation historique du rapport à soi. Il s’agit en bref de poser la question de la subjectivité en évitant de la réduire à la « volonté de savoir » caractérisant les sciences humaines. La compréhension du rapport à soi passe avant tout par la reconnaissance, qui est ici tenue pour le fondement anthropologique de la subjectivation. Une analyse comparative des pratiques de véridiction (aveu, promesse, parrêsia) sert à cet effet de terrain commun sur le plan de l’éthique. Mais cette comparaison ne cherche pas la réconciliation. Il s’agit plutôt de relever, chaque fois, une tache aveugle rendant ces deux pensées complémentaires dans ce qui les oppose : faire jouer la distance, tel pourrait être le leitmotiv de cette recherche. Mots-clés : Michel Foucault ; Paul Ricœur ; histoire ; vérité ; herméneutique ; généalogie ; anthropologie philosophique ; épistémologie ; ontologie ; critique ; modernité ; structuralisme ; objectivation ; interprétation ; compréhension ; soi ; sujet ; subjectivité ; subjectivation ; pouvoir ; éthique ; reconnaissance ; capacité ; véridiction ; attestation ; aveu ; confession ; parrêsia ; promesse ; souci.
Through a philosophical analysis of the concepts of history and truth, this dissertation aims at creating a dialogue between the works of two of the most important contemporary French philosophers: Paul Ricœur and Michel Foucault. Our main hypothesis is that through its history, the concept of subjectivity fluctuates between the will to know and the desire of understanding. These two positions, irreducible to one another, reveal the two methods under study: a genealogy of the subject ensuing from a historicization of the will of truth (Foucault) and a hermeneutics of the self based on a universal need for interpreting our finitude (Ricœur). Whereas Ricœur develops a philosophical anthropology focusing on the interpretive capacity of man, Foucault, for his part, criticizes our ‘anthropological age of the reason’ (i.e. modernity). Despite this apparent gap, however, both hermeneutics and genealogy prove to be based on a philosophy of finitude. The latter motivates a critical analysis of both the philosophy of history and its corollary, the philosophy of consciousness: Foucault and Ricœur thus offer opposite views of a common historical problematizing of subjectivity. In short, the purpose of this work is to investigate the notion of subjectivity without restraining it to the will to know which characterizes the humanities. We argue that the comprehension of the self depends above all on acknowledgment, which is considered here to be the actual anthropological foundation of ‘subjectivation’. To this end, a comparative analysis of different ‘veridiction’ practices (confession, promise, parrhesia) acts as a common ground in terms of ethics. However, this comparison does not aim at reconciliation. The idea is rather to reveal a blind spot by which it becomes possible to grasp the complementary aspects of these thoughts through what actually separates them: therefore, this thesis could be considered as a playful use of the distance. Key-words : Michel Foucault ; Paul Ricœur ; history ; truth ; hermeneutics ; genealogy ; philosophical anthropology ; epistemology ; ontology ; critic ; modernity ; structuralism ; objectivation ; interpretation ; comprehension ; self ; subject ; subjectivity ; subjectivation ; power ; ethics ; acknowledgement ; capacity ; veridiction ; testimony ; confession ; parrhesia ; promise ; care.
Cremonesi, Laura. "Interpretazioni del mondo antico nell'opera di Michel Foucault : "technai tou biou, epimeleia heautou e parrhesia"." Paris 12, 2006. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002513170204611&vid=upec.
Full textThe present thesis is an attempt to the analysis of the ancient thought interpretations developed by Michel Foucault between the end of the Seventies and the beginning of the Eighties. The aim of this study is relating some main topics of the practices and ancient texts analysis by Foucault with the idea of criticism as well as the idea of philosophy as "critical diagnosis of the actuality", which he develops in his last works. In fact in the following chapters I intend to propose some hypotheses about how to link the idea of philosophy as critical diagnosis of the actuality with the greek and roman idea of "askesis" -- the oneself transformation process -- and with the idea of "parrhesia" -- the dangerous speech activity of truth-telling
Park, Tae-Joune. "Savoir et volonté de savoir chez Schopenhauer, Nietzsche et Foucault." Paris 10, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA100192.
Full textThe aim of our work is to escape an epistemological, reducing, bipolar or dialectical vision and to initiate a vision of the complexity of knowledge. We have chosen Michel Foucault’s works as subject of analysis and Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s works as criterion of analysis. Our study was done according to the genealogical method, which implies that this thesis divided into two parts. One is dedicated to 'external' genealogy, that is to say, outside Foucault’s works. This means that it is dedicated at the same time to the birth of will and genealogy in Schopenhauer and to the process and development of criticism of Schopenhauer’s philosophy in Nietzsche. The other part of the thesis deals with 'internal' genealogy, that is to say, inside Foucault’s works themselves. We have used the same logic of genealogy but in this last part, we have used the method of periodization. In this method of periodization, we are not trying to temporally distinguish the periods or to make a distinction according to the published works; we focus on the discontinuity of complex will as well as on the method appropriate to this complexity. In genealogy, the epistemological field does not exist, as the distinction between the real being and phenomenon is unimaginable; there is only an ontological field. Knowledge is neither the product of knowing in the strict sense of the term nor ideology as illusion