| This dissertation aims to exemplify possible venues of research that the genealogical historiography introduces as possible or thinkable particularly when applied as analytical tool to examine cultural mechanisms of formation and organization of values of individual and social conduct. In the first chapter of the dissertation the objective is to present the constitutive factors of the emerging principles of the governmental rationalities of pastoral power or the (T)truth/sovereign relations that were to become the fundamental epistemological coordinates of rationalization of identity and value that continues to define the Judeo-Christian tradition. The second chapter introduces, via Foucault, the ethics of creativity as an epistemological alternative to the ethics of (T)truth. The absence of the concept of (T)truth as the organizing principle of value, permits a rationalization of identity and thus value in terms of the aesthetics of the possibilities of experience. Chapter three, following Kantorowicz, indicates the formation and development of the figure of the sovereign and its governmental Right to institute value and its inscription into the rule of law. Chapter four, following Max Weber, clarifies the relations between the acquisition and security of capital and the conceptualization of individual and social identity resulting from the Protestant democratization of sovereignty. In Discipline and Punish, taken up subsequently in chapter five, Foucault's genealogical reconstruction of the present politico-economic mechanisms constitutive of identity as subject/object of (T)truth is expounded. Once the governmental effects of the culturally dominant figure of sovereign identity are isolated, it becomes possible to consider, in chapter six, the objectives of their normative deployment as the ethics of (T)truth in contemporary historiography, as opposed to the open-ended ethics of creativity. The final chapter illustrates the re-conception of art, the figure of the artist and of the cultural critique in terms of the ethics of creativity as understood and artistically re-enacted by some members of the Berlin Dada. |
