The Subject of Order and the Order of the Subject - the "Care of the Self" as Care of Purity and Dirt Cover Image
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Субектът в реда и редът в субекта - „Грижата за себе си“ като грижа за чистото и мръсното
The Subject of Order and the Order of the Subject - the "Care of the Self" as Care of Purity and Dirt

Author(s): Simeon Kyurkchiev
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Philosophical Traditions, Sociology, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: freedom; subject; care of the self; power; governmentality; deterritorialization; New Age;purity; OCD; anxiety

Summary/Abstract: The first part of this paper addresses the status freedom has in Michel Foucault's philosophical work. For this purpose, I build upon the theoretical work of Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari. The effort is to understand the relation between the extreme, ecstatic ways of liberation and the particular situation of the subject that “gets free”. The second part of the paper is an attempt to reflect on these theoretical questions through an analysis of specific empirical practices – New Age practices in particular. In order to understand the basic logic of New Age practices, I try to synthesize Foucault's “care of the self”alongside the problems of purity and dirt as symbolic categories in Mary Douglas's theoretical work. This is the main aim of the article – to try to think about the “care of the self” as care for order, care to maintain the symbolic order which takes place at the level of the individual.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44/1
  • Page Range: 45-64
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian