ISBN : 9782296545458
MICHEL FOUCAULT: A DEBT OF GRATITUDE
The notion of dispositive allows to synthesize discursive heterogeneous series, as the Italian philosopher G. Agamben recently wrote in his book: Qu'est-ce qu'un dispositif? (2007). Two series are synthesized. The series of knowledge (human sciences grounded on observation: psychiatry, medicine, psychology, and so on) and the series of power (to act upon bodies by the way of confinement to work upon souls). I'm very interested in aesthetics, and I must say that it is this notion of dispositive which gave me the opportunity to go into what was going to become the object of my thesis: museum as the origin of aesthetics (1990, published in 1993). I found in Foucault's...