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Michel Foucault’s ”The Subject and Power”

Theory & Philosophy

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The Transformation of Organizational Power in the Church

This is another kind of subjection, or subjectification, i should say, that doesn't necessarily pointto any specific ruler or any specific kind of control. It's rather a more subtle tacit one that sneakly climbs into your brain and motivates you to act in certain ways according to certain ideas and principles that become natural to you. And he identifies this as pastoral power, o pastoral power. This was really motivated by christianity, in the church, where there was a developing rhetoric of individual responsibility on the teterrestrial plane,. In order to make oneself a seem like a virtuous person in the eye of god.

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