Chapter Michel Foucault e il lavoro. Tra assoggettamento e soggettivazione

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Faitini, Tiziana cc
Language
Italian
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Abstract
The article gives an overview of the use of the concept “work (travail)” made in Michel Foucault’s writings, drawing a comparison between Truth and Juridical Forms and Discipline and Punish, and The Use of Pleasure. To this end, it discusses the author’s interpretation of socially organized work, and his criticism of the assumption that work defines human beings’ concrete essence, showing to what extent a set of techniques is necessary to convert people’s bodies into labour power. It then compares this notion of work with that of a subjectivating “work on oneself” used in his last writings, thus helping to shed light on some inner tensions of the polyphonic concept of work.
URI
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96248
Keywords
discipline; Foucault; ethical subjectivation; subjection; apparatus
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0319-7.120
ISBN
9791221503197, 9791221503197
Publisher
Firenze University Press
Publisher website
https://www.fupress.com/
Publication date and place
Florence, 2024
Series
Studi e saggi, 257
Classification
General and world history
Pages
7
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/