El sujeto y el poder

by Michel Foucault

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About the author

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.

Reviews

[Gabriel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Michael Foucault habla del sujeto, de un yo individual pero también de un yo que se desenvuelve en la sociedad y se hace colectivo. Y si hablamos de sujeto inevitablemente esto nos llevará a un segundo término emparentado: el poder.
Foucault se centra en estudiar al sujeto en sociedad como alguien capaz de liderar, someter y gobernar, lo analiza como alguien con una posición de poder que ejerce sobre otros y las relaciones de poder existente entre ellos, algunos dominantes y algunos sumisos, dos fuerzas antagónicas que se enfrentan hasta que solo una gana. Hay mucho más aquí pero eso es lo más importante en un principio.

[LibrOscar · Rating 4 out of 5]

En El sujeto y el poder, Michel Foucault muestra cómo las interacciones humanas están siempre ligadas a una estructura de poder: el que lo ejerce y el que acepta, consciente o inconscientemente, someterse a él. A partir de esta premisa, plantea cómo desde las estructuras socioeconómicas se moldea y se perpetúa esa relación de poder como eje central de las interacciones humanas.

De igual forma, dentro de esa dinámica de poder, se generan respuestas del lado sometido a través de la construcción de discursos que atraviesan múltiples áreas. En lo que particularmente me interesa, que es la literatura, se ve cómo, desde la creación de textos, se levantan discursos que, aunque en gran parte controlados por las estructuras dominantes, también abren espacio para figuras de resistencia.

[catutim · Rating 4 out of 5]

muy de acuerdo con sus postulados