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Document Details : Title: Foucault's Politics of Forms of Life Subtitle: Governing Life Differently Author(s): VERVOORT, Tivadar Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 1 Date: 2025 Pages: 149-176 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.1.3294642 Abstract : This paper revises Rahel Jaeggi’s proposition for a critique of forms of life with insights from Foucault’s approach to power and resistance. I address Foucault’s comments on counter-conducts and other revolts of conduct through the lens of Jaeggi’s critique of forms of life, arguing that Foucault’s efforts to localize practices of resistance which counter governmental power involve a critique of forms of life. I suggest that Foucault’s power-theoretical paradigm allows us to approach alternative forms of life as corollaries of dominant forms of life. His relational approach to power implies that practices of resistance develop alternative normative horizons to govern social life, thus superseding the denaturalizing moment of genealogical critique. As such, Foucault’s work allows us to highlight the revolts of conduct as a politics of forms of life with a normatively significant and transformative character. |
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