Ethical identification of the subject, and “techniques of the self” in the works of Michel Foucault

We are used to the image of an individual as getting into the social reality created before and without him; however, Michel Foucault questions the genealogy of the modern subject, and states that within a ready-made social reality an individual is not given even to himself. Foucault considers proce...

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Main Author: Yu V Yatsutsenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2016-12-01
Series:RUDN journal of Sociology
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/6523