Abstract

OLIVIER, Alain Patrick. Sexual relationship and pedagogical relationship: about the care of the self and the care of the others. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2022, vol.36, n.78, pp.1745-1762.  Epub Jan 29, 2024. ISSN 1982-596X.  https://doi.org/10.14393/revedfil.v36n78a2022-66445.

Can we draw from Michel Foucault's work a theory of education and of education as emancipation? And what place could the history of sexuality have in this framework? In this article, we focus on the philosopher's last lectures, which give way to a theme of autonomy and freedom with the theses on "concern for the self". We discuss the possibility of considering the epimeletic relation as a form of pedagogical relation, and we ask why and how the question of sexuality allows us to re-evaluate the pedagogical question, shifting the problematic of repression and domination to that of subject formation. We first return to the previous discussions around the repressive hypothesis (I). Then we consider how the equation between epimeletic relation, erotic relation and pedagogical relation is set up in Subjectivity and Truth (II). Finally, we address the problematic of the "concern for the self" in The Hermeneutics of the Subject in relation to the "concern for others", to the political question and to institutions (III).

Keywords : Pedagogical Relation; Education; Care of the Self; Care of the Others; Emacinpation.

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