- Title
- Foucault on the subject of dialogue
- Creator
- Falzon, Christopher
- Relation
- Teoria: rivista di filosofia Vol. XXXVI, Issue 1, p. 25-44
- Relation
- http://www.rivistateoria.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117%3Anew-perspectives-on-dialogue&catid=2%3Ai-fascicoli-pubblicati&Itemid=5&lang=it
- Publisher
- Edizioni ETS
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- A certain notion of dialogue provides a useful perspective not only for reading Foucault, but understanding the notion of subjectivity that emerges in his thinking. The subject presupposed by dialogical power relations is neither wholly transcendental nor simply a product of power. It is both affected and affecting, passive and active, a finite transcendence. This can be distinguished from Sartre's superficially similar idea of human being as facticity and transcendence. Sartre situates the self only insofar it is reinstated as radically transcendent. Reflective activities, the focus of Foucault's later work, inform a more complex picture of human subjects, as not only shaped as an active being but brought to actively shape themselves. But at the reflective level also, human subjects are not mere products. They can be active in their self-shaping, refusing themselves in order to create different forms of subjectivity - the critical self-relation appropriate to Foucault's subject of dialogue.
- Subject
- Foucault; Sartre; finitude; transcendence; dialogue
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1349031
- Identifier
- uon:30315
- Identifier
- ISSN:1122-1259
- Language
- eng
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