 | Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson - 1992 - 518 pages
...nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are," adding that, since this is the case, "we have to promote new forms of subjectivity through...which has been imposed on us for several centuries." 1 1 do not know whether Foucault was familiar with Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, published... | |
 | Kelly Oliver - Philosophy - 1993 - 280 pages
...broader sociopolitical change. Foucault, a more explicitly political theorist, makes a similar point: "We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through...which has been imposed on us for several centuries."" Kristeva, too, talks about the power of refusal, of negativity, of rejection, in fact asserting "that... | |
 | Kathy E. Ferguson - Social Science - 2023 - 260 pages
...of selfness might enable one to recast questions of subjectivity in a fresh light: Foucault urges us "to promote new forms of subjectivity through the...which has been imposed on us for several centuries." 36 The call for more porous boundaries and permeable differentiations in our notions of subjectivity... | |
 | Michael Kelly - Philosophy - 1994 - 428 pages
...liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through...which has been imposed on us for several centuries" (p. 216). In an outline of his 1980/1981 course at the Collège de France, "Subjectivité et vérité"... | |
 | Barry Smart - Philosophy - 1994 - 434 pages
...liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through...which has been imposed on us for several centuries' (SP: 212). We can say that Foucault wants the discourse of subjectivity to be cut loose from its moorings... | |
 | John Scott - Political Science - 1994 - 468 pages
...liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization which is linked to the state. We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through...which has been imposed on us for several centuries. How is Power Exercised? For some people, asking questions about the "how" of power would limit them... | |
 | Barry Smart - Philosophy - 1994 - 430 pages
...relations instituted in the modern Western state. Foucault thus defined his task in 1981 as promoting 'new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of...individuality which has been imposed on us for several centuries.'47 Neither Foucault nor Derrida can sketch in great detail what this new being whose emergence... | |
 | Rosalyn Diprose - Bioethics - 1994 - 172 pages
...suggests, then, that 'the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are. . . . We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality' (Foucault 1982: 216). And there is some agreement within feminism about the strategy of refusal: If... | |
 | David M. Halperin - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 257 pages
...target nowadays is not to discover what we are," Foucault once wrote, "but to refuse what we are. . . . We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality. . . . "233 Foucault's treatment of homosexuality as strategic position instead of as a psychological... | |
 | Paul A. Komesaroff - Medical - 1995 - 260 pages
...system. He suggests that "the target nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are We have to promote new forms of subjectivity through the refusal of this kind of individuality." 34 Using the idea of the body as aesthetic material, he suggests that it is possible to "create ourselves... | |
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The conclusion would be that the political, ethical, social, philosophical problem of our days is not to try to liberate the individual from the state, and from the state's institutions, but to liberate us both from the state and from the type of individualization... 
