CAN GADAMER’S HERMENEUTICAL WAY OF BEING AND FOUCAULT’S WAYS OF SUBJECTIFICATION HELP US THINK ABOUT EDUCATION IN TIMES OF NECROPOLITICS?

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  • Leonardo Marques Kussler Pesquisador autônomo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18616/ce.v12i1.7396

Abstract

Foucault’s studies on the modes of subjectification based on self-practices are numerous, but little is said about their relationship with the contemporary hermeneutic tradition. Based on this assumption, in this article, the objective is to explore approximations of Foucault’s forms of subjectification to Gadamer’s hermeneutic way. So, in the first section, I deal with some elements of the ethical reflection of Foucault’s work, highlighting aspects of his approach to the care of the self, government of the self and existential aesthetics, highlighting how his theoretical structure also reverberates the thought of other authors in the search for the constitution of subjectivity, including with regard to contemporary bio/necropolitics and education. In the second section, I explore how it is possible to relate Foucaultian practices of the self to the hermeneutic way of being based on the ethical-existential proposal of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, which understands that the task of understanding oneself and the world encompasses a non-solipsist ethical change. Finally, I argue that such perspectives by Foucault and Gadamer can be read complementarily, since both are concerned with elevating the process of [self]understanding to a way of building a more critical, ethical, welcoming subjectivity that represents a resistance to biopower, contributing to an education better able to deal with contemporary reality.

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Published

2023-05-30

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Dossiê: Necropolítica e educação: desafios para o tempo presente