Política y subjetivación en el pensamiento de Michel Foucault

Abstract

Politics and Subjectivation in the Thought of Michel Foucault examines the connections between politics, ethics, and subjectivation in the French philosopher’s work, proposing a genealogical reading that situates his thought within the framework of a critical history of the present. The book reconstructs the conceptual shifts that mark Foucault’s trajectory, from his engagement with literature in the 1960s to his development of an ethics of self-care in the 1980s, through his analyses of power, biopower, and governmentality. The study does not limit itself to presenting Foucault’s theoretical developments, but rather problematizes his own reformulations in light of little-explored topics: the experience of literary transgression, counter-conducts in the face of pastoral power, and the Foucauldian reading of the Iranian Revolution. Based on these analyses, the notion of subjectivation is presented as the axis from which it is possible to rethink the relationship between politics and ethics, understood not as separate spheres, but as modes of constituting experience and thought. Ultimately, the work proposes understanding Foucault’s philosophy as a critical practice guided by a strategic rationality that interrogates forms of government, but which also opens the possibility of a non-strategic politics, linked to experiences of freedom and to the processes of transformation of ways of life.