A review by ralowe
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982 by Michel Foucault

5.0

a satisfying exposition rendering legible what is meant in the west by this term for a sentient autonomous entity endowed with agency. towards the second half of the transcription foucault focuses on a varied array of practices from the first two centuries in rome and greece that work to make the subject coherent vis-a-vis the external world. i came away with the understanding that the apparent coherence of the subject is nothing more than a continually negotiated contingency. it'll be interesting to look at this negotiations vis-a-vis audre lorde. say vis-a-vis again! ya punk rock! foucault writes so clearly! i'm struggling to think of anything further to say without having to go into the ethnographic details of the various greek things that are seriously only relevant to scholars of greece or foucault.