La chair selon Michel Foucault. Le 'retour' de l'expérience et l'élaboration de la subjectivité.
(2021) Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques — Vol. 2021/3, n° 105, p. 353-379 (2021)
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- (en) The definition of flesh as an « experience » constitutes one of the main conceptual contributions of Confessions of the Flesh, the fourth volume of Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality. But what does Foucault intend to designate with the syntagm « experience of the flesh »? And what is at stake in that definition ? This article investigates Foucault’s account of Flesh through the approaches to experience that Foucault developped during the 1960’s drawing on structuralism and literature. In doing so, the article unveils an account of Flesh as an experience that is both objective and subjective. Such a perspective on Flesh entails an approach to subjectivity as an "agent" able to transforming itself
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Colombo, A. (2021). La chair selon Michel Foucault. Le ‘retour’ de l’expérience et l’élaboration de la subjectivité. Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques, 2021/3(105), 353-379. https://doi.org/10.3917/rspt.1053.0353 (Original work published 2021)