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• Title:
  Biopolitics and autobiography. Two figures of patient in Franz Joseph Gall
• Creator:
  Sawala, Wojciech
• Description:
  The aim of this article is, on the one hand, to show Franz Joseph Gall as an important figure for setting up the ideological framework for modern biopolitics and, on the other, to look at the literary traces of his personal engagement in this endeavour. In the first part, we place his thought in the ideological context of the 18th and 19th century; the second one analyses the images of the patients created by the author, in order to show their different configurations: while some appear as reduced to the role of homo sacer (Giorgio Agamben’s term), others are inscribed in a dignifying discourse. We look at the political implications of this situation.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Wojciech Sawala
• Date:
  2018.05.16
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 44 No. 4 (2017): Sciences du vivant : imaginaire et discours scientifique. Fin XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle; 59-79;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 44 Nr 4 (2017): Sciences du vivant : imaginaire et discours scientifique. Fin XVIIIe siècle – XIXe siècle; 59-79;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/12687/12481
• Subject:
  phrenology;
  morality;
  biopolitics;
  Gall;
  Agamben
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/12687
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text