Space, time and the constitution of subjectivity: Comparing Elias and Foucault

Foucault Studies

Volumn , Issue 8, 2010, Pages 8-27

  Dolan, Paddy ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Elias; Foucault; Space; Subjectivity; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955615067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18325203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22439/fs.v0i8.2938     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. The focus here is primarily on Foucault's account of subjectivity in Discipline and Punish and, to a lesser extent, The History of Sexuality. This allows closer comparison to Elias's historical socio-logy of subjectivity or habitus.
2. M. Ogborn'Knowing the Individual: Michel Foucault and Norbert Elias on Las Meninas and the Modern Subject,? in Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift (ed.), Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), 70.
3. Marnie Hughes-Warrington, The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of History: Revision as Non-Place.? History and Theory, 46, 4 (2007): 71.
4. Norbert Elias, What Is Sociology? (London: Hutchinson, 1978).
5. Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power,? in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (ed.), Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1982), 208.
6. See Richard Kilminster, The Sociological Revolution: From the Enlightenment to the Global Age (London: Routledge, 1998), 85.
7. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality? in Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977. Edited by Colin Gordon (Harlow, Essex: The Harvester Press, 1980), 193.
8. Norbert Elias, The Society of Individuals (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), 212-214.
9. Ian Burkitt, Social Selves: Theories of the Social Formation of Personality (London: Sage, 1991);
10. Ian Burkitt, Overcoming Metaphysics: Elias and Foucault on Power and Freedom,? Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 23, 1 (1993);
11. Ian Burkitt, The Shifting Concept of the Self,? History of the Human Sciences, 7, 2 (1994);
12. Kiliminister; T. Newton, Resocialising the Subject? A Re-Reading of Grey's 'Career as a Project of the Self..'? Sociology, 30, 1 (1996);
13. T. Newton,Power, Subjectivity and British Indus-trial and Organizational Sociology: The Relevance of the Work of Norbert Elias,? Sociology, 33, 2 (1999);
14. T. Newton, From Freemasons to the Employee: Organization, History and Subjectivity,? Organization Studies, 25, 8 (2004);
15. D. Smith, The Civilizing Process and the History of Sexuality: Comparing Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault,? Theory and Society, 28, 1 (1999);
16. Pieter Spienenburg, Punishment, Power, and History: Foucault and Elias,? Social Science History, 28, 4 (2004);
17. Robert Van Krieken, Proto-Governmentalization and the Historical Formation of Organizational Subjectivity,? Economy and Society, 25, 2 (1996);
18. and Robert Van Krieken, Norbert Elias (London: Routledge, 1998).
19. Newton, From Freemasons to the Employee: Organization, History and Subjectivity,? 1365.
20. See also Burkitt, Overcoming Metaphysics: Elias and Foucault on Power and Freedom? on this point.
21. Burkitt, The Shifting Concept of the Self,? 16.
22. Ian Burkitt, Social Relationships and Emotions,? Sociology, 31,1 (1997): 49-50.
23. Norbert Elias, The Court Society (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983).
24. Cas Wouters, Sex and Manners: Female Emancipation in the West, 1890-2000 (London: Sage, 2004).
25. Van Krieken, The Organization of the Soul: Elias and Foucault on Discipline and the Self.?
26. Van Krieken, Norbert Elias, 153-154.
27. Foucault cited in Smith, 84.
28. Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure, the History of Sexuality: Vol. 2. (London: Penguin, 1992), 23.
29. Michel Foucault, The Care of the Self, the History of Sexuality: Vol. 3. (London: Penguin, 1990), 92-95.
30. Nikolas Rose, Authority and the Genealogy of Subjectivity,? in Paul Heelas, Scott Lash and Paul Morris (ed.), Detraditionalization: Critical Reflections on Authority and Identity (Oxford: Black-well Publishers, 1996);
31. and Nikolas Rose, Identity, Genealogy, History,? in Stuart Hall and Paul Du Gay (ed.), Questions of Cultural Identity (London: Sage, 1996).
32. Rose, ?Authority and the Genealogy of Subjectivity,? 304.
33. Norbert Elias, Introduction,? in Eric Dunning and Norbert Elias (ed.), Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), 35.
34. Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning, Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986).
35. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).
36. 32Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations. Revised Edition (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
37. Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976 (New York: Picador, 2003), 189-212.
38. Norbert Elias, Time: An Essay (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
39. Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, 151.
40. Elias, The Court Society;
41. Elias, The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and Psychogenetic Investigations.
42. Elias, Time: An Essay, 146.
43. Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction: Vol. 1. (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 3.
44. See also Ogborn, 69, on this point.
45. Burkitt, Social Selves: Theories of the Social Formation of Personality, 96.
46. Michael Pickering, History, Experience and Cultural Studies (Hampshire and London: Macmillan Press, 1997), 244 (original emphasis).
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48. G.S. Jones, The Determinist Fix: Some Obstacles to the Further Development of the Linguistic Approach to History in the 1990s,? History Workshop Journal, 42 (1996): 21-22;
49. Allan Megill, Foucault, Structuralism, and the Ends of History,? The Journal Modern History, 51, 3 (1979);
50. and Alun Munslow, Deconstructing History. Second Edition. (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), 129.
51. Munslow, 141.
52. Peter Burke, History and Social Theory (Cambridge: Polity, 1992), 151.
53. Michel Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1972).
54. Michel Foucault, Different Spaces,? in Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Vol. 2. Edited by J.D. Faubion. (London: Penguin Books, 2000), 175.
55. Michel Foucault, 'On the Ways of Writing History,? in Michel Foucault, Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Vol. 2. Edited by J.D. Faubion (London: Pen-guin Books, 2000), 285.
56. Foucault, The Archaeology of Knowledge, 3.
57. Elias, Involvement and Detachment (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987), 125.
58. Foucault, Return to History?, 429.
59. Michel Foucault, Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,? in Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader, Edited by Paul Rabinow (London: Penguin, 1984), 76.
60. Norbert Elias, The Germans: Power Struggles and the Development of Habitus in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996).
61. See also Cas Wouters, Informalization: Manners and Emotions since 1890 (London: Sage, 2007) on national habitus comparisons.
62. I thank Sam Binkley and the reviewers for helpful comments.