There's Cheating and There's Cheating: Foucault, True Speech, and Strategic Play
In 1981 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures in Louvain, Belgium, entitled Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling , which focus on the concept of avowal or the ritualized production of true statements about oneself. Insofar as such rituals mediate relations of power, they constitute one form of the “govern...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Ano: 2015, Volume: 83, Número: 4, Páginas: 1084-1107 |
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| Resumo: | In 1981 Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures in Louvain, Belgium, entitled Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling , which focus on the concept of avowal or the ritualized production of true statements about oneself. Insofar as such rituals mediate relations of power, they constitute one form of the “governance” of speaking subjects, the stakes of which are the very constitution of that subject. Through a comparison of Foucault and J. L. Austin's work on performatives, I use the example of oath-taking to investigate possible forms of strategic resistance within the framework legal-religious avowal. Such a mode of participation takes both the ritual structure and its stakes seriously, allowing the speaking subject to play by the rules of the game while also playing with those rules. What I call “the strategic abuse of the constitutive rules” of the game permits the maintenance of the government of oneself in the face of the potentially undesirable demands of the governance of others. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4585 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: American Academy of Religion, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfv057 |