Socratic Erotics and Foucault’s Permanent Revolution  

Oleh:

Greenman, Craig

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Philosophy & Social Criticism vol. 27 no. 2 (Mar. 2001), page 76–99.
Topik: activism ; erotics ; Foucault ; freedom ; government ; Greece ; politics ; sexuality ; Socrates ; subject
Fulltext: 76PSC272.pdf (96.61KB)

Isi artikel

In this paper, I argue that it is Foucault’s conception of Socratic erotics, presented in Volume 2 of the History of Sexuality series, which provides him with a theoretical ground in the history of philosophy for his notions of political activism, power and government. Once we understand this, it is possible to understand how Foucault, rather than using a mixture of demonstration and diplomacy to oppose the idealization of revolution that eventually leads to the ‘permanent revolution’ of Stalinism, opposes it instead with a philosophical mutation of it – that is, with a permanent revolution of his own: the ceaseless self-transgression of/by the citizen. It is a conception that is finally unsuccessful for grounding an effective theory of political activism.

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