Lorenzini, Daniele. “What is a ‘Regime of Truth’?” Le foucaldien 1, no. 1 (2015): 1–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/lefou.2 [Note: In 2022, Le foucaldien relaunched as Genealogy+Critique.]
Originally published online 28 October 2013
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Abstract
In this paper, I offer an overview of the ways in which Foucault defines and uses the concept of ‘regime of truth’ in his works between 1975 and 1980, focusing especially on his lectures at the Collège de France On the Government of the Living. There, I argue, a substantial shift takes place, which corresponds to the emergence of the dimension of subjectivity at the heart of the concept of regime of truth itself. This shift bears witness to Foucault’s elaboration of a new critical project, namely that of a genealogy of our contemporary regime of truth ‘indexed to subjectivity’.
Keywords: critique, government, regime, subjectivation, truth, Foucault
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Bellas palabras de Foucault en Verdad y Poder donde manifiesta que la verdad no está fuera del poder, ni sin poder […] La verdad es de este mundo y […] cada sociedad tiene su régimen de verdad, su “política general de la verdad”. La “Verdad” está ligada circularmente a los sistemas de poder que la producen y mantienen, y a los efectos de poder que induce y que la acompañan.
Y, además….como decía el filósofo francés, es preciso recordar que donde hay poder hay resistencia… intersticio por donde se cuela la obstinada libertad!!
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