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Self-writing. Foucauldian Inspirations
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Michel Foucault was an author endowed with a critical awareness of authorship. It is a rare case among philosophers, in our culture, signaling sensitivity to the relationship between writing and its self-awareness. It is mainly the literary tradition, not the philosophical one, that makes us problematize the „author – work” relationship. What kind of philosophy is this, which problematizes, also its own, authorship? What kind of writing is it that uses philosophy to defend its right to speak? What are the consequences of such a treatment of philosophical writing, which requires reflection and thematization of thought within its own work? „Self-writing” (l'ecriture de soi) is a term with which Foucault tries to designate the roles that the practice of writing, and above all the practice of self-expression in writing, plays in creating the subjectivity of the author. What, then, does self-narrative play in renewing the effort to produce and reconstruct oneself? The answer to these questions is self-description understood as a „technique of self”, as the work of writing in reflecting the turning points of biography.
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Michel Foucault , self-writting, l’ecriture de soi, autorship, writting, autonarrationDetails
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