The Body Dimmension Of Foucault's Thoughts

The individual life experience of Foucault is consistent with his academic interest in philosophy. The object of Foucault's bodily passion is abnormal, and he is addicted in the limited experience of passion. All the mentioned above is the resource of his research in non-mainstream cultural field. The traditional method in study of Foucault's thinking is based on such concepts as power, knowledge, language, subject, truth and so on. .As a result, the understanding is restricted in the surface and separate stage. By comparison, the way to the concept of body is superior to the traditional, which is a passageway of chisels in his entire thought.Foucault objects to the Subjectivism Philosophy from Renaissance to contemporary which suggest that human has no history and is transcendent. On the contrary, he moves to the analysis of "Our Historical Ontology" (I' ontologie historique de nous memes), in which Foucault questions and reflects how the culture and history shape human in contemporary. So Foucault pays attention to individual who is affected by the social and historical practice, and he argues that the history is about the bodily effective process instead of in-depth secret of Subject. Besides, Foucault has realized a transformation from the traditional Subjectivism Philosophy which maintains dualism for body and spirit to monism of bodily philosophy. The argument process of Bodily Monism, on one hand, contains the deconstruction to Subject and the resort to the bodily ontology; on the other hand, includes the construction and praise to esthetic value of body.Throughout the dissection on all Foucault's works, we can find that by the means of Archaeology Foucault delineates the Objective Body in his earlier period writing. Moreover, he describes the Subjective Body in later period. In such opinions, he reveals the relations between knowledge and body, language and body> power and body and myself and body. It is inevitable that the criticism and question about objective body change into desire and pursuit of subjective body. In the end, Foucault proposes "the aesthetics of existence", which means a final outlet and solution to the domain of bodily theory that he focus on all the time. There is a paradox in the transform from objective body to the subjective body. Actually, such phenomena merely can be appreciated in esthetic sense, and this kind of esthetics plan is the poetics outlet. The way by which Foucault rewrites the objective body of Subjectivism Philosophy is to beautify our existence. At the same time ,to regard our life and the body as the creation of art. In order to get poetical existence, Foucault has transcended the limit of the power and knowledge between the dual games of creation and objection. However, his bodily aesthetics still has a strong metaphysical and ontological color.