„Pedagogika Siebie?” – Michela Foucault wykład z historii seksualności
“A Pedagogy of the Self?” – Michel Foucault’s lecture on the history of sexuality

Author(s): Ewa Jakimowska
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: postmodernism; subjection (French assujettissement); creativity; autocreation; Pedagogy of the Self
Summary/Abstract: An understanding of what the creative act is in terms of pedagogy is mainly dependenton the assumed conception of creativity. According to various criteria one candistinguish between differing conceptions, posing questions about the subject matterof creativity, the area it refers to, its conditions or effect. In postmodern philosophy,creativity is conceived of – after J. Derrida – as “discovering the Other”: somethingunpredictable, something that had not existed before. It seems that such anunderstanding of creativity inspired Michel Foucault’s interpretations of classicaltexts. In the final two volumes of A History of Sexuality the analysis of sexual reflectionsand advice contained in classical texts gives him a pretext to develop an individual“A Pedagogy of the Self.” It is a story about the autocreation of the subject regardingthe shaping of one’s own needs and the work one does on oneself. The effect is tomake life resemble something of a work of art, being an example for others and theobject of mimetic imitation. And thus, what message – as part of the Pedagogy of the Self – does the philosopher want to leave us with when talking about erotica andlove in antiquity?

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