Is there something beyond autonomy and the modern subject? The trouble for this overcoming in Adorno and Foucault
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Autonomy, modernity, subjectivity, subjugation, determinism.Abstract
The article analyses the question of autonomy as a fundamental element for modern subjectivity. It asks about a possible overcoming of this subjectivity, and takes two emblematic positions that intend to be part of this process: that of Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault. However, it is claimed that those authors do not go beyond this identity in their criticism of it: they rather keep their structure by looking for an active detachment. It concludes that if ever happening, the overcoming of modernity involves a more fatalistic and deterministic ontology of being.
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