The ontology of the subject in Michel Foucault

Author(s)

Carolina de Souza Noto

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2009-08-14

Examining board members

Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura; Luiz Damon Santos Moutinho; Pedro Paulo Garrido Pimenta

• Advisor: Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura

Abstract

This work investigates the being of the subject that is made out of a correlation between the individuals relation with himself and the historical events in the field of knowledge and power of his era. On the one hand, subjectivity is always correlated to certain models which are due to the way of thinking of an era and the forces of power that can standardize or even impose this way of thinking; on the other, there is always room for a possible freedom where individuals can build themselves as subject independent of those models. (AU)