Foucault On The Subject And Power

This dissertation does not observe subjects and power positively in concrete legal structures, the real intention of the author is to comprehend the relationship between subjects and power in Foucault's perspective. To a profound thinker, it is difficult to comprehend and understand his thoughts completely, but it is possible to discover something from Foucault and other thinker's dialogues and locate Foucault's position in the history of thoughts. They may pretend their own intentions, or their dialogues in essence are fake, but if we can connect their surroundings and their life histories, we can not involve in these thought traps. This dissertation wants to discuss the constitution of Foucault's thoughts, the author puts Foucault's most famous and representative saying, "human is dead" in to the historical stage, and put the concrete role in to this stage, and retrospect the question in this stage.The author wants to discover the origin of Foucault's thoughts from examining Foucault's history of life, from the place which his thoughts roots in, from his childhood, and youth period. The author wants to discover changes in his concerns on subjects and understandings of power .From this periodical examining, we can clarify his comprehension of the relationship between subjects and power, in which period it is a kind of repressive hypothesis, in which period it is a theory of micro-powers.The second chapter is an analysis of Foucault's dialogues with other thinkers, from the beginning of Foucault's thoughts, he continues to restore and upgrade the former thinkers' thoughts. This chapter relates to Kant's thoughts, but we should notice that Kant has not have an obvious elaboration of powers especially in subjects' sense, Foucault dialogues with Kant and at the same time criticize...