“Are you Sure that this Type of Discours is Actually Liberating ?” (Foucault)
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https://doi.org/10.30827/tn.v7i1.29089Keywords:
politics, literature, freedom, liberty, thought, subjectivationAbstract
The idea of a politics of literature is not self-evident in Foucault’s thinking, because his work casts a radical suspicion on the liberating power of discourse. This suspicion is the result of Foucault’s diagnosis of his own time, which abounded in statements praising easy and courageous access to freedom. This suspicion also derives from an internal dialectic in Foucault’s thinking, which is related in particular to his conception of power. However, the question asked by Foucault does not remain aporetic: one can think of an actually liberating discourse only if the subjects speak in concrete situations of their life, that is, an approach which does not seek the secrets of freedom in the pages of literary works. Literature thus becomes a secondary element in contrast to the practices of a subject which is constituted by language. In this light, Foucault's question can be conceived as the guiding principle for the development of a subjective strategy.
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