الذات والمؤسسة عند ميشال فوكو

Abstract

"Don't ask me who I am or to which philosophy I belong," the archaeologist-philosopher Michel Foucault used to say. Through his genealogical-archaeological approach, he sought to give voice to the unspoken, to reveal the obscure and the marginal. Foucault held institutions like barracks, prisons, and schools responsible for the exclusion of individuals and their voices. In society, the individual is seen as merely a disciplinary tool. Foucault is known for his critique of the systems and laws governing hospitals and clinics, arguing that hospitals, in turn, are merely manifestations of the disease being treated, a consequence of the mismanagement of suffering. They are stations and spaces where power operates through surveillance and control.