Biopower and Education: Self-Care, Subject and Truth

Authors

  • Marco A. Jiménez Acatlan School of Higher Studies
  • Ana María Valle-Vázquez Center of Research and Teaching in Humanities of the state of Morelos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25749/sis.8910

Keywords:

Biopower, Self-care, Truth, Subject

Abstract

Our thesis here is that the relation between bio-power and education is found in the care of oneself, the subject and truth. We consider bio-power to be one’s self-government/discipline and that of others and that this discipline is possible in the subject-truth relation just as it is in one’s selfcare. The questions that guide our reflections are: What is education in the sense of biopower? How does one constitute the subject in relation to oneself, in relation to others and truth? According to Foucault, biopower is a form of the “exercise of power” that has as its objective the biological life of the human; it is the exercise of power over the bodies of the individuals. Such exercise might exist in the self-care practices (epimeleia heautou) just as in the practices of “truth-telling” (parresia).

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Author Biographies

Marco A. Jiménez, Acatlan School of Higher Studies

Professor-researcher of the Acatlan School of Higher Studies, graduate degree in Pedagogy from the School of Philosophy and Letters from the UNAM and a graduate degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from the UNAM. Professor of the Philosophy of Culture and Sociology of Culture seminars.

Ana María Valle-Vázquez, Center of Research and Teaching in Humanities of the state of Morelos

Professor-researcher with the Center of Research and Teaching in Humanities of the state of Morelos (Mexico).

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Published

2016-03-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2015): Biopolitics, Education and Latin America

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