Foucault, actitud crític y subjetivación

Abstract

The last pieces of Foucaultean research show a relationship between critical attitude and subjectivation. Critical attitude is introduced as a philosophical ethos that allows us to make a diagnosis of the present in order to transform it. From the point of view of subjectivation, the elaboration of one’s life can turn existence into a work of art, and becomes the framework of an ethics of the self as a practice of freedom. Thus, subjectivation is a form of ethical confrontation with the techniques that coerce and constraint individuality. Through desubjection and self-making, on the basis of a relation of the self to itself, subjectivity appears as something that is being made, it emerges as a singular being that cannot be reduced neither to the effect of current social norms nor to sovereign and universal forms of subjectivity.