The DOI matches its Crossref record.
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth
Abstract
Texte integral des deux conferences donnees par M. Foucault au College de Dartmouth en 1980 sous les titres de « Subjectivity and Truth » et « Christianity and Confession ». Elles marquent une transition de l'etude des systemes de relations de pouvoir vers l'etude de la creation de l'agent ethique et font allusion aux themes qui apparaitront plus tard dans les volumes 2 et 3 de l'« Histoire de la sexualite »
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“In crisis situations, contact tracing apps contribute to self-disciplining.”
From Contact tracing apps and values dilemmas: A privacy paradox in a neo-liberal world (2020) · cites this paper as Foucault, 1993
Citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Items 201–300 of 768
Lees, H. E. (2011) · University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive (University of Birmingham) · Cited by 16
Foucault’s Concept of Clinical Gaze Today
Ristić, A. J., Zaharijević, A., & Miličić, N. (2020) · Health Care Analysis · doi:10.1007/s10728-020-00402-0 · Cited by 16
Ordinary Ethics and the Emergence of Plebeian Democracy across the Global South
Forment, C. A. (2015) · Current Anthropology · doi:10.1086/682172 · Cited by 15
'Saving' the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice
Bialski, P., Derwanz, H., Otto, B., & Vollmer, H. (2015) · CBS Research Portal (Copenhagen Business School) · Cited by 17
New perspectives on discourse and governmentality
McIlvenny, P., Klausen, J. Z., & Lindegaard, L. B. (2016) · Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture · doi:10.1075/dapsac.66.01mci · Cited by 15
Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of ‘supportive’ power
Wainwright, E. M., & Marandet, E. (2013) · Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) · doi:10.1080/01425692.2012.723870#.vzpjmdzwz9a · Cited by 15
Governmentalisation and Local Strategic Partnerships: Whose Priorities?
Lever, J. (2005) · Environment and Planning C Government and Policy · doi:10.1068/c0535 · Cited by 17
Family learning and the socio-spatial practice of ‘supportive’ power
Wainwright, E. M., & Marandet, E. (2012) · British Journal of Sociology of Education · doi:10.1080/01425692.2012.723870 · Cited by 15
Demonology, Neurology, and Medicine in Edwardian Britain
Hayward, R. (2004) · Bulletin of the history of medicine · doi:10.1353/bhm.2004.0019 · Cited by 15
The Effects of School Geometry in the Shaping of a Desired Child
Andrade-Molina, M., & Valero, P. (2016) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-34006-7_15 · Cited by 15
Bareback sex: Breaking the rules of sexual health and the assumption of risks
Ávila, R. (2014) · Sexualities · doi:10.1177/1363460714550903 · Cited by 19
Governing sexual behaviour through humanitarian codes of conduct
Matti, S. (2015) · Disasters · doi:10.1111/disa.12128 · Cited by 14
The myth of individualism: From individualisation to a cultural sociology of individualism
Cortois, L. (2017) · European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology · doi:10.1080/23254823.2017.1334568 · Cited by 14
Genetic relatedness and family formation in Israel: lay perceptions in the light of state policy
Birenbaum‐Carmeli, D. (2010) · New Genetics and Society · doi:10.1080/14636770903561380 · Cited by 14
"Truth as Force": Michel Foucault on Religion, State Power, and the Law
Holland, N. J. (2002) · Journal of Law and Religion · doi:10.2307/1051495 · Cited by 14
Dallaire, C., Lemyre, L., Krewski, D. R., et al. (2012) · Sociology of Sport Journal · doi:10.1123/ssj.29.3.325 · Cited by 14
“Our participants engage in technologies of the self in a context of power relations, and within those relations, they recognize their own roles and act accordingly (Foucault, 1988, 1993).”
Spaces and Identities in Border Regions
Wille, C., Reckinger, R., Kmec, S., Heße, M., & Müller, M. (2015) · transcript Verlag eBooks · doi:10.14361/9783839426500 · Cited by 19
Heidegger on Freedom: Political not Metaphysical
Thiele, L. P. (1994) · American Political Science Review · doi:10.2307/2944703 · Cited by 14
Young Women’s Anger in Romantic Relationships: Gendered Rules and Power
Jaramillo-Sierra, A. L., Allen, K. R., & Kaestle, C. E. (2015) · Journal of Family Issues · doi:10.1177/0192513x15592029 · Cited by 15
Integrity Is More Than Validity: Seeking Credible, Usable, and Ethical Research
Rallis, S. F., & Lawrence, R. B. (2017) · New Directions for Institutional Research · doi:10.1002/ir.20218 · Cited by 13
McDonald, M., & Wearing, S. L. (2013) · Journal of Phenomenological Psychology · doi:10.1163/15691624-12341244 · Cited by 13
‘More than a day job, a fair job: music graduate employment in education’
Brook, S., Comunian, R., Jewell, S., & Lee, J.-Y. (2020) · Music Education Research · doi:10.1080/14613808.2020.1840539 · Cited by 13
Neoliberal schooling and subjectivity: Learning to desire lack
Atasay, E. (2014) · Subjectivity · doi:10.1057/sub.2014.12 · Cited by 13
“Psychopolitics” at work: the subjective turn in labour and the question of feminization
Rau, A. (2013) · Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International Journal · doi:10.1108/edi-09-2012-0076 · Cited by 16
Administrative Law and Governmentality: Politics and Discretion in a Changing State of Sovereignty
Howe, L. E. (2002) · Administrative Theory & Praxis · doi:10.1080/10841806.2002.11029340 · Cited by 12
Power, Action, Signs: Between Peirce and Foucault
Garnar, A. W. (2006) · Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society · doi:10.2979/tra.2006.42.3.347 · Cited by 13
‘Signs of the times’: confession and the semiotic production of inner truth
Carr, E. S. (2013) · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12002 · Cited by 11
In the service of surveillance: Immigrant child language brokers in parent-teacher conferences
Reynolds, J. F., Orellana, M. F., & García–Sánchez, I. M. (2015) · Langage et société · doi:10.3917/ls.153.0091 · Cited by 12
Zhang, A. (2019) · The British Journal of Criminology · doi:10.1093/bjc/azz068 · Cited by 12
From confident subject to humble citizen: reimagining citizenship education in contemporary China
Chen, S. (2023) · Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education · doi:10.1080/01596306.2023.2230926 · Cited by 12
“Foucault (1993) indeed considers government as the meeting point for governing others and governing oneself: The contact point, where the individuals are driven by others is tied to the way they conduct themselves, is what we can call, I think, government.”
BackgroundToward a genealogy of the liberal government of youth
Anderson, A. (2017) · Journal of Youth Studies · doi:10.1080/13676261.2017.1394993 · Cited by 12
‘All the time watched’: an analysis of disciplinary power within the Irish Direct Provision system
Hewson, D. (2020) · Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies · doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1844001 · Cited by 12
Gammon, T. (2022) · Asian Studies Review · doi:10.1080/10357823.2022.2098924 · Cited by 12
“These practices are enforced through governing techniques that promote the need to behave (Foucault & Blasius, 1993).”
BackgroundPerpetual Apocalypses: David Mitchell'sCloud Atlasand the Absence of Time
Bayer, G. (2015) · Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction · doi:10.1080/00111619.2014.959645 · Cited by 11
The Paradoxical Effects of Attentiveness
Graiver, I. (2016) · Journal of early Christian studies · doi:10.1353/earl.2016.0017 · Cited by 11
Tabaco: a construção das políticas de controle sobre seu consumo no Brasil
Barreto, I. F. (2018) · História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos · doi:10.1590/s0104-59702018000400011 · Cited by 11
(2005) · Duke University Press eBooks · doi:10.1215/9780822386544-005 · Cited by 11
Yates, S. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_438 · Cited by 11
Yeung, S., & Gray, J. (2022) · Language in Society · doi:10.1017/s0047404522000203 · Cited by 10
Selbstoptimierung als gesellschaftlicher Zwang zum Selbstzwang
von Felden, H. (2019) · Lernweltforschung · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-28107-6_1 · Cited by 10
Dispositiv – Technologien des Selbst – Portfolio
Münte-Goussar, S. (2014) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-07186-8_7 · Cited by 10
Conversion to Islam in Ireland: A Post-Catholic Subjectivity?
Shanneik, Y. (2012) · Journal of Muslims in Europe · doi:10.1163/22117954-12341235 · Cited by 10
Sinclair, J. (2016) · International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism · doi:10.1080/13670050.2016.1210565 · Cited by 10
Haute, D. V., Roets, G., Alasuutari, M., et al. (2018) · Child & Family Social Work · doi:10.1111/cfs.12433 · Cited by 10
Schubert, K. (2018) · Edition Moderne, Postmoderne · doi:10.14361/9783839443170 · Cited by 10
What Is Experience? Foucauldian Perspectives
Tirkkonen, S. K. (2019) · Open Philosophy · doi:10.1515/opphil-2019-0032 · Cited by 10
The ledger and the diary: algorithmic knowledge and subjectivity
Fisher, E. (2020) · Continuum · doi:10.1080/10304312.2020.1717445 · Cited by 10
“The ancient obligation to know thyself became at the beginning of the Christian era ‘ the monastic precept “ confess, to your spiritual guide, each of your thoughts ”’ (Foucault 1993, 204).”
BackgroundInfluentialLawyering Landscapes: Lawyers as Constituents of Landscape
Martin, D. G., & Scherr, A. W. (2005) · Landscape Research · doi:10.1080/01426390500165450 · Cited by 10
“Nonetheless, he holds a place for alternative actions (which might be called resistance) despite or within dominant discourses (Foucault, 1993; Hacking, 1986).”
BackgroundBeyond Celebrity Politics: Celebrity as Governmentality in China
Lin, Z., & Zhao, Y. (2020) · SAGE Open · doi:10.1177/2158244020941862 · Cited by 10
Subjectivity, Politics and Order in Russian Political Evolution
Sakwa, R. (1995) · Slavic Review · doi:10.2307/2501401 · Cited by 10
Sociology, liberalism andthe historicity of conduct
Osborne, T. (1994) · Economy and Society · doi:10.1080/03085149400000021 · Cited by 10
A Paper Mirror: Autobiographical Moments in Modern Chinese Poetry
Wu, S. (2016) · Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture · doi:10.1215/23290048-3713827 · Cited by 9
Offermann, S. (2019) · Rethinking History · doi:10.1080/13642529.2019.1596579 · Cited by 9
Anton, C. (2008) · Atlantic Journal of Communication · doi:10.1080/15456870802086945 · Cited by 9
Bevan, C. (2021) · Housing Theory and Society · doi:10.1080/14036096.2020.1738542 · Cited by 13
Gemignani, M., & Hernández‐Albújar, Y. (2022) · Emotion, space and society · doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100882 · Cited by 9
“Said otherwise, managing the pandemic entailed the interaction of domination and subjectivation to “assure coercion and processes through which the self is constructed or modified by himself” (Foucault, 1993, pp. 203–204).”
BackgroundFoucault and the Subject of Stoic Existence
Seitz, B. (2012) · Human Studies · doi:10.1007/s10746-012-9223-3 · Cited by 9
Making citizens, being European? European symbolism in Slovenian citizenship education textbooks
Banjac, M., & Pušnik, T. (2014) · Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education · doi:10.1080/03057925.2014.916972 · Cited by 9
“…diverse, sometimes complementary and sometimes conflicting, technologies and techniques is, ‘always a versatile equilibrium, with complementarity and conflicts between techniques which assure coercion and processes through which the self is constructed or modified by himself’ (Foucault 1993, 204).”
BackgroundGarman, A. (2006) · Journal of Literary Studies · doi:10.1080/02564710608530406 · Cited by 9
Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter
Szto, C., & Gray, S. (2014) · Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health · doi:10.1080/2159676x.2014.938245 · Cited by 9
“Similarly, Foucault (1993) contends that self-examination and confession have historically been used as techniques to expose ‘the truth about oneself’ (p. 205).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialFoucault’s Ethical Ars Erotica
Huffer, L. (2009) · SubStance · doi:10.1353/sub.0.0062 · Cited by 9
Counselling and Religious and Spiritual Values: A Malaysian Study
Yusoff, M., & Binti, Y. (2011) · Cited by 9
Meaning and subjectivity in the PISA mathematics frameworks: a sociological approach
Beccuti, F. (2024) · Educational Studies in Mathematics · doi:10.1007/s10649-023-10296-z · Cited by 8
Deng, J., Fitzpatrick, K., & Powell, D. (2024) · Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy · doi:10.1080/17408989.2024.2367506 · Cited by 8
“Indeed, as Foucault and Blasius (1993, 203) argued, modern government relies on the interactions between technologies of power and technologies of the self, ‘the points where the technologies of the self are integrated into structures of coercion and domination.”
Qazi, M. H., & Javid, C. Z. (2021) · International Journal of Inclusive Education · doi:10.1080/13603116.2021.1889051 · Cited by 9
Li, X., Bo, L., Shen, D., & Soobaroyen, T. (2022) · British Journal of Management · doi:10.1111/1467-8551.12605 · Cited by 8
Goodbye Foucault’s ‘missing human agent’? Self-formation, capability and the dispositifs
Villadsen, K. (2022) · European Journal of Social Theory · doi:10.1177/13684310221125350 · Cited by 8
Bigoni, M., Antonelli, V., Funnell, W., & Cafaro, E. M. (2021) · Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal · doi:10.1108/aaaj-06-2020-4638 · Cited by 9
Zebras showing their stripes: a critical sense-making study of women CSR leaders
Cherneski, J. (2021) · Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management An International Journal · doi:10.1108/qrom-07-2020-1984 · Cited by 8
Court-ordered treatment, neoliberalism and Homo economicus
Seddon, T. (2011) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9781139162142.013 · Cited by 9
Stickney, J. (2010) · Ethics and Education · doi:10.1080/17449641003666009 · Cited by 8
Adapting, defending and transforming ourselves
Karakayalı, N. (2014) · History of the Human Sciences · doi:10.1177/0952695114556685 · Cited by 8
Greig, C. J., & Holloway, S. M. (2015) · Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education · doi:10.1080/01596306.2015.1043239 · Cited by 8
“Here, Foucault (1993) points to the indetermination of power relations, which do not rest upon binaries.”
Background‘The will to empower’: reworking governmentality in the museum
Beel, D. (2017) · Area · doi:10.1111/area.12330 · Cited by 8
Lorenzini, D. (2020) · Foucault Studies Lectures · doi:10.22439/fsl.vi0.6153 · Cited by 8
Subjectivity, Politics and Neoliberalism in Post-apartheid Cape Town
Heusden, P. V., & Pointer, R. (2006) · Journal of Asian and African Studies · doi:10.1177/0021909606061749 · Cited by 8
The New Zealand nurse practitioner polemic: A discourse analysis
Zealand, W. N. (2007) · Cited by 8
Neoliberalism and the Politics of Affect and Self‐Authorship in Contemporary Chilean Cinema
Page, J. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118557556.ch15 · Cited by 8
The Beatification of the Clinic: Biomedical Prevention ‘From Below’
Race, K. (2021) · Social aspects of HIV · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-69819-5_7 · Cited by 7
Alevi Cultural Heritage in Turkey and Germany: Negotiating “Useable Pasts” in Transnational Space
Weineck, B. (2015) · European journal of Turkish studies · doi:10.4000/ejts.5206 · Cited by 7
‘What about the wolves?’: The use of scripture in YouTube arguments
Pihlaja, S. (2016) · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · doi:10.1177/0963947016652784 · Cited by 7
“As users employing recognised language from the text, they invoke the powerful voice of the text (Bakhtin, 1981) and the second-order discourses that have accumulated around it (Foucault, 1981, 1993; see Allington, 2006: 129).”
BackgroundPreaching as master’s discourse. A Foucauldian interpretation of Lutheran pastoral power
Tilli, J. (2019) · Critical Research on Religion · doi:10.1177/2050303219848059 · Cited by 7
Beyond the confines of the law: Foucault’s intimations of a genealogy of the modern state
Braeckman, A. (2019) · Philosophy & Social Criticism · doi:10.1177/0191453719860227 · Cited by 7
A digital promised land? Digital landscape as a heterotopia for disabled people in China
Lin, Z., & Yang, L. (2020) · Information, Communication & Society · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2020.1776366 · Cited by 4
“This kind of self-gov-ernance could lead our discussion on ‘ the politics of ourselves ’ which liberates the self from the state to promote new forms of subjectivity and helps us to discover a positive self (Foucault & Blasius, 1993, p. 222).”
BackgroundMartelli, J. (2020) · Modern Asian Studies · doi:10.1017/s0026749x2000013x · Cited by 9
Good teachers and counter conduct
Norman, P. (2022) · Critical Studies in Education · doi:10.1080/17508487.2022.2142627 · Cited by 7
“…emphasised the problem of ethics, which he broadly conceived as concern for ‘care of the self’: the way the self is produced whether that be through the Ancient Greek ethic imperative to ‘know yourself’, or the Christian pastoral practice of confession (Foucault, 2020; Foucault & Blasius, 1993).”
Cammaerts, B. (2023) · European Journal of Cultural Studies · doi:10.1177/13675494231165645 · Cited by 7
“As Foucault (1993) also pointed out, however, Technologies of the Self are deeply integrated with Technologies of Domination (p. 203).”
BackgroundPure flour in your bag: Governmental rationalities of camera surveillance in Sweden
Björklund, F. (2011) · Information Polity · doi:10.3233/ip-2011-0260 · Cited by 7
“In fact, Foucault in later works distanced himself from the idea of self-disciplining elements in surveillance, i.e. internalisation of control [9]; and the very notion of discipline should perhaps be replaced by something else.”
Aarsand, L. (2014) · European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults · doi:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela9025 · Cited by 7
“Self-work in terms of guidance, regulation and discipline is accentuated because such exercises on the self are assumed to sculpt, maintain and stabilise (Foucault, 1993).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialOutcome of the Market: The Outdated Mathematics Teacher
Montecino, A. (2018) · ICME-13 monographs · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72610-6_9 · Cited by 7
How Homework Shapes Family Literacy Practices
Clarke, C., & Comber, B. (2019) · The Reading Teacher · doi:10.1002/trtr.1879 · Cited by 7
Creative Networks and the City
van Heur, B. (2010) · Urbane Welten · doi:10.1515/transcript.9783839413746 · Cited by 29
Lindgren, J. (2010) · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · Cited by 7
Banday, M. U. L. (2025) · Culture and Organization · doi:10.1080/14759551.2025.2508320 · Cited by 6
Training journals and the development of an elite sports identity
Augestad, P. (2024) · Sport in Society · doi:10.1080/17430437.2024.2344796 · Cited by 6
Decentering Responsibilization: Towards a Nomos of Governmentality in Mexico
Emerson, R. G. (2019) · International Political Sociology · doi:10.1093/ips/olz020 · Cited by 6
Employee resilience: a labour process perspective
Murphy, C., & MacMahon, J. (2022) · Work in the Global Economy · doi:10.1332/273241721x16517520388131 · Cited by 6
Positioning discourse on homophobia in schools: What have lesbian and gay families got to say?
Cocker, C., Hafford‐Letchfield, T., Ryan, P., et al. (2018) · Qualitative Social Work · doi:10.1177/1473325018767720 · Cited by 6
“(Family 3) Foucault (1993) identified factors characterising the boundaries of discourse such as when and where agents are allowed to speak about any given situation.”
Background‘Responsibility to Prosecute’ in an age of global governmentality: The International Criminal Court
Turan, G. (2015) · Cooperation and Conflict · doi:10.1177/0010836715597946 · Cited by 6
“…and incompetent or unwilling judicial systems are regarded as ‘abnormal categories’ in a similar fashion to the construction of the mentally ill as an incompetent subject and a perturber of society corresponding to an emergent public sensibility towards the socially irregular (Foucault, 1993).”
BackgroundTell, D. (2010) · Philosophy and Rhetoric · doi:10.5325/philrhet.43.2.0095 · Cited by 6
Metadata
- Authors
- FOUCAULT, M., & BLASIUS, M.
- Affiliations
- City University of New York (US)
- ORCID
- FOUCAULT, MICHEL
- Venue
- Political Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1993-05
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 198-227
- ISSN
- 0090-5917 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7476
- OpenAlex
- W2091088468
- Cited by
- 767
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 29 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 52 · 2018: 36 · 2017: 37 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 42 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 58 · 2012: 41
- FWCI
- 10.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Political Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Philosophy and Social Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Theology and Sovereignty
- Keywords
- hermeneutics of the self, subjectivity, truth, confession, Christianity, power relations, self-creation, Michel Foucault, history of sexuality
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review