Sujeto y resistencia en la obra de Michel Foucault

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to show that both the archaeological method and the genealogical method developed by Michel Foucault do not provide an appropriate approach to think the resistance of subjectivity nor it is possible to explain it from those perspectives for the lack of appropriate theoretical devices. Thus, it is necessary to go against those who see both methods either as totally different or as a part of an evolutionary process in the thought of Foucault. It is argued that the impossibility to think seriously the resistance lays down in the fact that the French thinker was involved in a tradition which aim was to undermine the Humanist, Existentialist and Phenomenological philosophies. To expose this problem in the thought of Foucault, some of Judith Butler’s ideas are recovered to show the necessity of thinking the resistance as a constitutive part of the process of configuration of the subjectivity. This does not mean to abandon the Foucauldian thought, but to make it more complex by looking its weak points.