Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores Foucault's reflections on eschatology in courses, articles and interviews produced in 1978 and 1979. The starting point is the course Security, territory, population, in particular the 1978 classes, which is put in dialogue with Foucault's articles and interviews on the Iranian revolution. The hypothesis proposed is that these texts are crossed by common interests and that, around their key concepts of counter-conduct, revolt and spirituality, there is a strong connection through the religious figure of eschatology. Despite the scarce precision of the concept of eschatology in Foucault, it is possible to delimit the main characteristics and the particular use that the French philosopher makes of this term, which he strips of specific religious determinations and gives it an ethical-political sense as an interruption of a historical continuity in relation to revolt and resistance.
Source: Recial
Author: Rodrigo Baudagna
Institution: Universidad Católica de Córdoba
Language: Spanish
Topic: Foucault, Power, and Ethics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4389727294