The Emerging of the Entrepreneurial Self and Its Current Hegemony. Some Basic Reflections on How to Analyze the Formation and Transformation of Modern Forms of Subjectivity

Abstract: Numerous investigations in the field of Governmentality Studies have sought to understand the contemporary (trans-) formational process underlying the way modern subjectivation is constructed. These studies assert that an "enterprising self" emerged at the end of the 1970s and appears to have become hegemonic. Why did this self emerge and how could it have become hegemonic? This unsolved problem reveals a deep-seated issue: It is completely unclear how the (trans-) formational process underlying modern subjectivation can be theoretically conceptualized and empirically depicted while avoiding both the presupposition of an ontological reduction as well as the pitfall of discursively dissolving subjectivity. It is proposed here to conceive of this (trans-) formational process by applying the investigations of Michel FOUCAULT and to regard this process as an effect of dispositive practices, the historical and concrete interplay of which is thereby appropriately investigated with the he.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/518

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

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• Bibliographic citation: The Emerging of the Entrepreneurial Self and Its Current Hegemony. Some Basic Reflections on How to Analyze the Formation and Transformation of Modern Forms of Subjectivity ; volume:6 ; number:1 ; day:31 ; month:01 ; year:2005 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 6, Heft 1 (31.01.2005)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Bührmann, Andrea D.

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-6.1.518
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0501165
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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