Genealogies And Archives Of The Possible

Resumen

This is a particularly interesting text, not only for its opening up of research perspectives,
but also —and this is something I would like to emphasize— for the way it contributes to
the definition of the tasks of political philosophy in its specificity.
A first contribution in this direction comes from the genealogical approach that was
adopted. References to Michel Foucault's research are anything but occasional —I recall,
for example, the recent article devoted to the theme of labour in Foucault's Truth
and Juridical Forms and The Use of Pleasure (Faitini, 2022)— both in method and, conversely,
in the original choice to distance herself from some analyses of the contemporary
that use Foucauldian categories. Indeed, the author declares that she does not want
to “equate ethics, governmentality and ideology” (Faitini, 2023, p. 32), thus grasping a
limitation of those critical theses that, while moving away from the intention of clarifying
the dynamics of the contemporary, end up producing a reinforcement of the iron
cage in which we would find ourselves.

Citas

Faitini, T. (2022) Michel Foucault. Dalla costituzione del soggetto lavoratore al lavoro su

di sé. Lavoro, Diritti, Europa, 3, 1-10.

Faitini, T. (2023), Shaping the Profession. Towards a Genealogy of Professional Ethics.

Brill U Schoningh.

Foucault, M. (1991). Nietzsche, Genealogy, History. In P. Rabinow (Ed.), The Foucault

Reader (pp. 76-100). Penguin. (Original work published 1971).

Grossi, P. (2017). L’ordine giuridico medievale. Laterza.

Sassen, S. (2006). Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages.

Princeton University Press.

Teubner, G. (2012). Verfassungsfragmente. Gesellschaftlicher Konstitutionalismus in der

Globalisierung. Suhrkamp.

Thomas, Y. (2002). La valeur des choses : Le droit romain hors la religion. Annales.

Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 6, 1431-1462. https://doi.org/10.3406/ahess.2002.280119