THE NOTION OF SELF IN HEIDEGGER AND FOUCAULT
HEIDEGGER VE FOUCAULT’DA KENDİLİK NOSYONU

Author : Abdurrahman DENKTAŞ
Number of pages : 439-452

Abstract

Throughout the history of philosophy, the concept of self, which is sometimes regarded as a substantial unity and sometimes conceived as a subject oriented to knowledge through knowing himself at a certain level, is dealt with by Heidegger and Foucault by reaching similar points with different perspectives. In Heidegger, the notion of self -, is based on the axis of the question of being through the criticism of traditional metaphysics and the criticism of enlightenment metaphysics- which is supposed to have a fundamental relation with traditional metaphysics. Foucault, in his post-1980 studies, is seeking a subject aware of his own possibilities to oust the subject criticized in his pre-1980 studies on a social-political level. In both philosophers, the notion of self has no longer a strict, static and precise conceptual content. Being away from a strict and static sense of self, both philosophers provide a similar perspective on how human beings should be oriented to being and truth.

Keywords

Self, the notion of self, subject, dasein, knowledge, He

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