Autori: Sassatelli, Roberta, Salomoni, Antonella
Titolo: Oltre l’identità disciplinare. Foucault e la genealogia del presente
Periodico: Rassegna italiana di sociologia
Anno: 2026 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 153 - Pagina finale: 174

This essay proposes a transdisciplinary reading of Michel Foucault’s work, highlighting its capacity to critically traverse the boundaries between sociology, history, and philosophy beyond their recompositing into a pacified synthesis. Foucault’s project emerges as a methodological crossing that combines detailed historical analysis with theoretical clarification, oriented towards a critical understanding of the present and its conditions of possibility. The article appreciates the contemporary relevance of the development of his thought, from archaeology to genealogy, up to the ethical turn of his later years, focusing on the notion of problematization, the analytics of power, the critical appraisal of embodied subjectivity and his engagement with Marxism. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between power, knowledge, and embodied subjectivity, culminating in the concept of the «care of the self» as an immanent practice of subjectivation aimed at opening an ethico-political space beyond normalization. The essay also accompanies the complete Italian translation of the interview Foucault gave in 1977 to the journal Rouge, contextualizing its themes in the light of the genealogical turn and the «Foucault effect» on younger generations and social movements. In conclusion, it argues that the reflection on games of truth redefines intellectual work as a critical practice of the present whereby power needs to be addressed in its capilarity.




SICI: 0486-0349(2026)1<153:OLDFEL>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1423/120224
Testo completo alternativo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1423/120224

Esportazione dati in Refworks (solo per utenti abilitati)

Biblioteche ACNP che possiedono il periodico