Han, Foucault Reader [Spanish]

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Philosophy, history of philosophy

Abstract

The main ideas of Han’s thought are built against concepts of Foucault's philosophy: psychopolitics as overcoming biopolitics, transparency as a non-perspectivist panopticon and self-care as the most effective technique for dominating individuals who submit voluntarily while believing that they are free. In this paper I evaluate this reading, underlining the imprecisions on which his reading of Foucault is based: he does not understand the inciting character of biopolitics and forgets the importance of perspective in the panopticon and the impossibility of escaping from power relations.

Author Biography

  • Beltrán Jiménez Villar, University of Granada

    Investigador en formación (contratado FPU) del Departamento de Filosofía II de la Universidad de Granada (España). Actualmente trabaja en una tesis doctoral sobre la subjetividad en los Ensayos de Montaigne. Además de esta línea de investigación en historia de la filosofía moderna, también se dedica a cuestiones relacionadas con la filosofía contemporánea francesa.

Published

2020-01-23

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