Review of Barker, Philip, 'Michel Foucault: Subversions of the Subject' (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994 [1993] pp. viii, 232 A$24.95 (paper).

Title
Review of Barker, Philip, 'Michel Foucault: Subversions of the Subject' (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1994 [1993] pp. viii, 232 A$24.95 (paper).
Publication Date
1995
Author(s)
McDonald, William
Type of document
Review
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/00048409512346991
UNE publication id
une:15502
Abstract
Philip Barker contributes to a growing trend in Foucault scholarship when he avoids mere exegesis and commentary in favour of Foucauldian excursions into realms largely uncharted in Foucault's published works. Barker offers us a somewhat sketchy, but very suggestive, archaeology and genealogy of the modern subject as it is presupposed in the history of ideas, the history of philosophy, intellectual history, and psychoanalysis. He locates the origins of this subject in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, when important changes occurred in the power/knowledge network, in the politics of truth, and in the laws and practices of inheritance. As a result of these changes we see the emergence of a misogynistic Oedipal society and the beginnings of a new technology of the self.
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Citation
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73(4), p. 631-632
ISSN
1471-6828
0004-8402
Start page
631
End page
632

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