Crítica, cuidado de sí y empresario de sí. Resistencia y gobierno en Michel Foucault
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2017-06-16
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Benente, Mauro
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Universidad EAFIT
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Luego de estudiar las relaciones de poder en la modernidad, Michel Foucault realizó una conceptualización de la crítica, a la que describió como una actitud de inservidumbre que denuncia al poder por sus efectos de verdad y a la verdad, por sus efectos de poder. Años más tarde, presentó la modernidad como una actitud que busca encontrar los límites que nos han formado como sujetos, para luego atravesarlos. Finalmente, caracterizó el cuidado de sí como una actitud, como una práctica de libertad. En este artículo rastreo las distancias y cercanías entre la actitud crítica, la moderna y la que cuida de sí, para contrastarlas con una actitud que difícilmente puede caracterizarse como una práctica de libertad: el empresario de sí. Esta comparación permite interrogar el potencial de la crítica, la modernidad y el cuidado de sí como prácticas de resistencia o de libertad.
After studying the relations of power in modernity, Michel Foucault made a conceptualization of the critique, which he described as an attitude of insubordination that accuses power for its effects of truth and truth for its effects of power. Years later, he presented modernity as an attitude that seeks to find the limits that have shaped us as subjects to later cross them. Finally, he characterized the care of the self as an attitude, as a practice of freedom. In this paper, I trace the distance and proximity among the critical attitude, the modern one and the one that takes care of the self to contrast them with an attitude that can hardly be characterized as a practice of freedom: the entrepreneur of the self. This comparison allows us to question the potential of the critique, modernity and the care of the self as practices of resistance or freedom.
After studying the relations of power in modernity, Michel Foucault made a conceptualization of the critique, which he described as an attitude of insubordination that accuses power for its effects of truth and truth for its effects of power. Years later, he presented modernity as an attitude that seeks to find the limits that have shaped us as subjects to later cross them. Finally, he characterized the care of the self as an attitude, as a practice of freedom. In this paper, I trace the distance and proximity among the critical attitude, the modern one and the one that takes care of the self to contrast them with an attitude that can hardly be characterized as a practice of freedom: the entrepreneur of the self. This comparison allows us to question the potential of the critique, modernity and the care of the self as practices of resistance or freedom.