Foucault, el liberalismo y la crítica de la filosofía política
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España
ISSN: 1794-2489
Datum der Publikation: 2012
Nummer: 16
Seiten: 187-212
Art: Artikel
Andere Publikationen in: Tabula Rasa: revista de humanidades
Zusammenfassung
In avoiding modern and contemporary political philosophy’s dicomotized abstractions, Michel Foucault has not intended to rebuild a transcendental, rational and normative whole, or rationally legitimate values, but to study the practices themselves in a given society, and the changes they generate. Stressing the individual’s self-shaping practices displays in front of us a whole dynamic view of subject and freedom, which make up an inverse face of «docile bodies», or those of the subject emerged from the grid power/knowledge. Foucault’s genealogy may be broadened to demonstrate liberalism is a set of practices for subject constitution. It is a liberalism, which —after creating the police program to produce person categories—, is able to provide the conditions necessary for the game of freedom and to regulate behavior in terms of corporativity