Political Foucault: the philosophy of transformation

Abstract

The genealogy of the subject undertaken by Michel Foucault throughout his work leads us to consider which political statute is occupied by theoretical analyses of the technologies of the individual practised in the Greek world, with the aim of offering a study of the ethical and political drifts that occur in the author’s work. To do this, we will focus our analysis on the relationship that Foucault establishes between economic studies, based on the notion of liberal and neoliberal governmentality, and on how this particular governance regime exercises power over subjects. In turn, in a return to the origins of thought, to the Greeks, we set out the need to enable self-governance that establishes procedures through which subjects self-constitute themselves, shape their identity and transform it.