The Concept of Subjectivation: A Central Issue In Governmentality and Government of The Self

Presentation by Maria Bonnafous-Boucher, PhD

Dean of Research in Entrepreneurship, Commerce and Negotiation ADVANCIA-NEGOCIA, Graduate Business School, Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Conférence des grandes écoles.

The concept of subjectivation appears as an essential element in the articulation of political philosophy and the philosophy of ethics: from a Foucauldian standpoint, both converge on the practice of subjectivation and considered as a condition of freedom. This assertion raises some general questions: How is subjectivation, as the condition of freedom, situated between governmentality and government of the self? In other words, how can governmentality, considered as a political rationality, be linked to the government of the self?

These are some of the general questions that circulate within the presentation wherein the concept of subjectivation as a practice of freedom is explored in its multidimensional significance through a series of considerations.

The active stance of subjectivation is drawn against the passive stance attributed to the subject of philosophy, particularly where the latter is considered in relation to practices of knowledge production, mediated by procedures of knowledge production, or the episteme of a given dispositif, or "apparatus".

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No registration is needed. For further information please contact Matias Søndergaard, mso.lpf@cbs.dk.

Arranged by:

The Management Philosophy group at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS.