scholarly journals Det utilstrækkelige subjekt – En foucauldiansk analyse af selvhjælpslitterær selvstyring

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Erik Mygind du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis

Denne artikel undersøger, hvordan bestemte personlighedstræk søges problematiseret og kultiveret i moderne selvhjælpslitteratur. Undersøgelsen, som har et særligt fokus på autonomi, trækker teoretisk på Michel Foucaults begreb problematisering samt Foucaults tanker om governmentality og selvstyring. Artiklen kombinerer disse analytiske perspektiver i et forsøg på at vise, hvordan det autonome subjekt forsøges kultiveret på trods af det paradoks der indtræder, når kultiveringen sker gennem subjektets underkasten sig litteraturens anvisninger. Det konkluderes i artiklen, at problemer i selvhjælpslitteraturen generelt formuleres som forskellige typer mangler, der som løsning indebærer konstant udvikling hen mod et mål om selvrealisering, som aldrig helt kan opnås. Subjektet subjektiveres dermed som et ufærdigt projekt, der aldrig er helt godt nok, og som altid har brug for forbedring. Dette gælder også for autonomi som problem, og i artiklens anden halvdel vises det, hvordan den allestedsnærværende ufuldendthed ved subjektet manifesterer sig i paradokset, hvor subjektet bør være selvstændigt, autonomt og handle ud fra sin egne overbevisninger, men samtidig udleder denne evne til at handle autonomt fra de samme autoriteter, som det bør være autonomt fra. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Erik Mygind du Plessis: The Inadequate Subject: Self-Help Literature and the Government of the Self – a Foucauldian Analysis This article investigates how current self-help literature seeks to problematize and cultivate certain personality traits. The study emphasizes individual autonomy, and is based on an analytical framework employing Michel Foucault’s concept of problematization and his insights into power and governmentality – particularly those concerned with the various ways in which subjects govern themselves. The article combines these two analytical perspectives in an attempt to show how the objective of creating autonomous subjects is carried out in this literature, despite the paradoxical nature of doing so through the readers’ subjection to self-help instructions. The analysis concludes that the problems taken up in the self-help literature are generally formulated in terms of various forms of incompleteness. This entails a constant and never ending development towards, as a final objective, a self-realization, which can never quite be achieved. Thus the subject is construed as an unfinished project that is never quite good enough, always requiring improvement. The second part of the article analyses how this ubiquitous incompleteness of the subject manifests itself through the paradox of creating autonomy through subjection. Key words: Foucault, problematization, self-help, autonomy.

Love Yourself

2003 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Hazleden
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

The rise of psy discourse has been the subject of considerable academic attention, but one of its most popular and visible forms, the self-help book, has received comparatively little attention. This article provides a Foucauldian analysis of a selection of relationship manuals; it examines the ways in which they set up a relation of the reader’s self to itself, and it explores the ethical valorizations and teleologies therein. The emphasis on the relationship with the self, and the development of mastery over the emotions advocated in the books, is related to the values held in liberal democratic societies.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Parenting Styles on Personality Traits of Children at Secondary Level

2020 ◽  
Vol V (III) ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Aqsa Saleem ◽  
Imran Latif Saifi ◽  
Sadia Noreen
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Psychological Term ◽  
Development Of Students

Parenting style is basically a psychological term that leads us to the approaches that were used by the parents to bring up their childrens in their childhood. The main focus of the study was to explore the effectiveness of parenting styles on the personality of children at the secondary level. Objectives of the study were to explore the effectiveness of parenting styles on the personality of children at the secondary level and to recommend proposed parenting styles for the development of students personality of children at the secondary level. This study followed a mixed method in nature and followed survey design. All the children of class 10 and their parents were the population of the study from the government and private schools of Faisalabad city. It is highly recommended that parents may be provided awareness session to now the importance of their parenting styles and their impact on the personality traits of their children. It is recommended that the government may provide funds and also provide technical facilities. More researches may be conducted on the subject cited above. Curriculum agencies may develop a curriculum on the subject so everybody may have an idea about parenting style also.

Peran Strategis Penyuluh Swadaya dalam Paradigma Baru Penyuluhan Pertanian Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
NFN Syahyuti
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Self ◽  
Extension System ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Future ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Government

<p><strong>English</strong><br />Involvement of farmers as actors to support extension activities have been underway for a long time with various approaches. In Indonesia, it started from the involvement of Kontak Tani (Advanced Farmers) in Supra Insus era, then farmer to farmer extension at P4S, as well as Penyuluh Swakarsa (Independent Extension Workers)” (in 2004), and the latest is Penyuluh Swadaya (Self-Help Agricultural Extension Workers) since 2008. The existence of self-help farmer extension workers are recognized since the enactment of Law No. 16/2006 on Extension System of Agricultural, Forestry and Fisheries. However, even though it runs nearly 10 years, the development of the role of self-help farmer extension workers is not optimal. This paper is a review of various posts including the recent research on self-help farmer extension workers and it aims to study the potential and problems of self-help farmer extension workers. It shows that the self-help farmer extension workers have a self-help capabilities and distinctive social position and they have to get right role. Appropriate support should be given to self-help farmer extension workers as the agricultural extension worker in the future and it must be distinguished between the government and private extension workers. </p><p> </p><p><strong>Indonesian</strong><br />Pelibatan petani sebagai pendukung dan pelaku langsung dalam kegiatan penyuluhan telah berlangsung cukup lama dengan berbagai pendekatan. Di Indonesia, hal ini dimulai dari pelibatan kontak tani pada era Bimas sampai Supra Insus, lalu pendekatan “penyuluhan dari petani ke petani” (farmer to farmer extension) di P4S, serta pengangkatan penyuluh swakarsa (tahun 2004), dan terakhir penyuluh swadaya (sejak tahun 2008). Keberadaan penyuluh swadaya diakui secara resmi semenjak diundangkannya UU No. 16 tahun 2006 tentang Sistem Penyuluhan Pertanian, Kehutanan dan Perikanan. Namun, meskipun sudah berjalan hampir 10 tahun, perkembangan peran penyuluh swadaya belum optimal. Tulisan ini merupakan review dari berbagai tulisan termasuk penelitian tentang penyuluh swadaya terakhir, untuk mempelajari potensi dan permasalahan penyuluh pertanian swadaya saat ini. Ditemukan bahwa penyuluh swadaya memiliki kapabilitas dan posisi sosial yang khas, sehingga batasan perannya mestilah diberikan secara tepat. Dukungan yang tepat harus diberikan kepada penyuluh swadaya sebagai sosok penyuluh pertanian yang strategis di masa mendatang, yang mesti dibedakan dengan penyuluh pemerintah dan penyuluh swasta.</p>

scholarly journals Mirarse a uno mismo: Acerca de la afectación como engranaje clave de las políticas de reforma curricular

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Carla Andrea Villagran
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Curriculum Policies ◽  
Better Than

This article presents the results of a research project that seeks to describe and analyze the curricular policies of reform in the daily life of schools, paying particular attention here to the processes of regulation and self-regulation that they produce and impose on their subjects. From the Foucauldian notion of governmentality we understand that curriculum policies and regulations, technologies, and behaviors produce performative effects (Ball, 2002, 2012), which affect not only the life of the institutions but also of the subject (Ahmed, 2004, Berlant, 2011). Thus, the question that orientates this article is woven around the articulation of the government of others and self-government (Foucault, 1988, 2009) as a key mode of school reform technologies and the modes of social affectation. The processes of reform cross subjects through performative technologies (Ball, 2002) and constitute a part of what Rose (2012) called the ethopolytic, that is, these processes act at the level of feelings and beliefs, and put the self in check. As a hypothesis, it is argued that judgment, self-reflection and self-responsibility are attached to questions that teachers ask themselves in the call to become better than they are. 

The Feeling of Being a Body: Resurrection and Habitus in Vaughan’s Medical Writings

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-147
Author(s):  
Daniel Juan Gil
Keyword(s):  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Devotional Writings

Chapter 4 articulates more explicitly than the previous chapter the way resurrection beliefs in Vaughan’s poetry function as “critical theory” about selfhood, identity, and the social world. The chapter examines Vaughan’s devotional and religious “self-help” literature and Vaughan’s translation and expansion of a hermetic medical treatise. Vaughan’s immanent corporeal resurrectionist commitment to finding the “seeds” of resurrection leads him to posit an essential core of bodily life—the radical balsam—that seeks eternal life but that is sickened when it is penetrated and rewired by the social and historical world. The goal of Vaughan’s devotional writings and medicine alike is to rewire the self so that it reduces its investment in the historical and social world by having its life directed by the essential core, a move that is analogous to his poetic search for the seeds and signs of resurrection within himself his poetry (the subject of chapter 3). This vision anticipates Heidegger’s phenomenology and Bourdieu’s theory of habitus. Vaughan also describes a form of sexuality that anticipates Leo Bersani in imagining the body as socialized and yet as potentially unhinged from that social connectedness.

scholarly journals Peran Pokdarwis Andang Taruna Sebagai Katalisator Terwujudnya Karakter Peduli Wisata (Studi Di Banraas Pulau Gili Iyang Madura)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Enza Resdiana ◽  
Laylatul Hasanah
Keyword(s):  
Public Awareness ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Quality Of Products ◽  
Care Study

Tourism Awareness Group or abbreviated Pokdarwis is a self-help and self-help group that grows from, by and for the community and aims to enhance the development of regional tourism and succeed tourism development by becoming a government partner in raising public awareness in the field of tourism, increasing human resources, encouraging the realization of Sapta Enchantment, enhancing the quality of products and tourism. This research uses descriptive qualitative method, which is the subject and object of this research is the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) of Andang Taruna Banraas Village. Tourism Care (Study in Banraas, Gili Iyang Madura Island). The role of Pokdarwis Andang Taruna is able to act as a mobilizer for the community where the community has provided support and role as host in efforts to create an environment and conducive atmosphere that is able to encourage the growth and development of the tourism industry and the realization of sapta charm. The role as a partner has been carried out by Pokdarwis Andang Taruna in the form of activities and programs carried out by involving the Government and other parties related to the development and construction of tourist facilities such as lodging, transportation, culinary and etc. although there has not been a maximum cooperation between Pokdarwis and the Government so that there are obstacles in realizing the character of caring tourism.

scholarly journals SEYLA BENHABIB COM HANNAH ARENDT CONTRA A FILOSOFIA DO SUJEITO

Caderno CRH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 020016
Author(s):  
Yara Adario Frateschi
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Self ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theoretical Project

<div class="trans-abstract"><p>A partir dos textos reunidos no livro <em>Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics</em> (1992), sabe-se que Seyla Benhabib responde aos excessos racionalistas de Habermas e aos limites da tradição universalista moderna com uma releitura da concepção arendtiana de “pensamento alargado”. Neste artigo, eu me proponho a mostrar que a presença de Arendt no pensamento de Benhabib é ainda mais radical do que parece à primeira vista, pois a autora de <em>A condição humana</em> está na raiz do seu projeto teórico orientando o enfrentamento filosófico que Benhabib faz com a tradição, na sua primeira grande obra, <em>Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of Crítical theory</em> (1986). A minha hipótese interpretativa é a de que a tese central deste livro, segundo a qual a teoria crítica é assombrada pela filosofia do sujeito, carrega as marcas da crítica arendtiana à filosofia política ocidental.</p><p><strong>Palavras-Chave: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Filosofia do Sujeito; Filosofia Política; Pluralidade</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>SEYLA BENHABIB WITH HANNAH ARENDT AGAINST THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SUBJECT</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>From <em>Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics</em> (1992), we know that SeylaBenhabib answers Habermas’ excesses and the limits of the modern universalist tradition with a reinterpretation of the Arendtian conception of “enlarged thought”. In this article, I propose to show that Arendt’s presence in Benhabib’s thought is even more radical than it seems at first, because the author of The human condition is at the root of Benhabib’s theoretical project, guiding her in her philosophical confrontation with tradition at her first major work,<em>Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of Crítical theory</em>(1986). My interpretive hypothesis is that the central thesis of this book, according to which Crítical theory is haunted by the philosophy of the subject, bears the marks of Arendt’s criticism to Western political philosophy.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Philosophy of the Subject; Political Philosophy; Plurality</p></div><div class="trans-abstract"><p class="sec"><span>SEYLA BENHABIB AVEC ARENDT CONTRE LA PHILOSOPHIE DU SUJET</span></p><p class="sec">ABSTRACT</p><p>A partir des textes rassemblés dans le livre Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics (1992), on sait que Seyla Benhabib répond aux excès rationalistes d’Habermas et aux limites de la tradition universaliste moderne par une réinterprétation de la conception arendtienne du «mentalité élargie». Dans cet article, je propose de montrer que la présence d’Arendt dans la pensée de Benhabib est encore plus radicale qu’il n’y paraît au premier abord, car Arendt est à l’origine de son projet théorique guidant la confrontation philosophique que Benhabib fait avec tradition, dans son premier grand ouvrage, Critique, norm, and utopia: a study of the foundations of crítical theory (1986). Mon hypothèse interprétative est que la thèse centrale de ce livre, selon laquelle la théorie critique est hantée par la philosophie du sujet, porte les marques de la critique arendtienne de la philosophie politique occidentale.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Hannah Arendt; Seyla Benhabib; Philosophie du sujet; Philosophie politique; Pluralité</p></div>

scholarly journals Foucault Among the Stoics: Oikeiosis and Counter-Conduct

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F. Depew
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Natural Law Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Stoic Philosophy

This paper explores the relation of Foucault’s notion of counter-conduct to the Stoic notion of oikeiosis. Initially, oikeisosis is set against Platonic homoiosis, specifically as discussed in the Alcibiades, which provides what Foucault calls the “Platonic model” of conduct. The paper examines what Foucault means by “care of the self” and points to its difference from the Delphic maxim “know yourself” that centered on a principle of homoiosis, or ethical transcendence. Noting how the problematic of care of the self leads to what Foucault calls “the government of conduct,” the paper considers the possibility of “counter-conduct.” Given that Foucault has argued that the autonomy of conduct has been rendered invisible through its “juridification,” this paper proceeds with a genealogy of the codification of morals in natural law theory. This culminates with the sixteenth century return to Stoicism in the person of Grotius. Showing that a certain conception of counter-conduct present in Gerson is transformed in natural law theory into a juridical grounding of the government of conduct, this paper draws out the immanent relation of conduct and counter-conduct in the notion of appropriation. Arguing that Grotius has fundamentally misunderstood the concept of oikeiosis, which he takes from Cicero and which subtends his theory of appropriation, this paper suggests that a return to the early Stoic formulation of oikeiosis allows for a rethinking of the problem of the government of conduct. A certain moralization of action, irreducible to codification that is present in early Stoic thought provides a model of “counter-conduct.” Ultimately, “care of the self,” as it is given in Stoic philosophy, relates the subject of action to the principle of ethical immanence that grounds Foucault’s critique of the subject.

scholarly journals Correction of convicts by reorientation of their emotional-volitional qualities

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 (6) ◽  
pp. 56-61
Author(s):  
TATIANA V. KIRILLOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Subject

The article examines scientific approaches to the study of the emotional and volitional spheres of convicts’ personality, their importance for the organization of corrective impact, corrective and preventive work with various categories of convicts. The subject of the article is the official statistics, scien- tific literature on the problem considered. The aim was to study the emotional and volitional qualities of convicts. The methodological basis of the research was formed by the system-structural, formal-logical methods, general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis. As a result of the work carried out, the concepts of «emotional sphere of personality» and «volitional sphere of personality» were studied in relation to the realities of the penitentiary society. The results of a study of the emotional-volitional qualities of convicts are presented, the classification of convicts according to their emotional-volitional qualities is substantiated. Conclusions are made about increasing the effectiveness of corrective impact on convicts, taking into account the results of the pilot study. Key words: convicts, emotional and volitional personality traits, diagnostics, correction, corrective impact.

scholarly journals Anarcheology and the Emergence of the Alethurgic Subject in Foucault’s On the Government of the Living

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-70
Author(s):  
Daniele Lorenzini
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
History Of Sexuality ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government

On the Government of the Living plays a pivotal role in the evolution of Foucault’s thought because it constitutes a “laboratory” in which he forges the methodological and conceptual tools—such as the notions of anarcheology and alethurgy (or, better, what I call here the “alethurgic subject”)—necessary to carry on his study of governmentality independently from his History of Sexuality project. In this paper, I argue that Foucault’s projects of an anarcheology of the government of human beings through the manifestation of truth in the form of subjectivity and of a genealogy of the subject of desire, albeit essentially linked to one another, are conceptually autonomous. These projects are both part of a genealogy of the modern subject but should be treated independently insofar as it is the former, elaborated in On the Government of the Living, that provides us with the key to understanding Foucault’s interest in the care of the self and parrhesia as an integral part of his analyses of governmentality and the critical attitude from the late 1970s.

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