Passages between the writing and the biography in Michel Foucault and Walter Benjamin: ethical and methodological contributions
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.13i3.0019Abstract
This paper deals with the relationship between writing and biography, based on the importance of the methodological problematization of first person and autobiographical writings. It starts with Michel Foucault’s interview given in 1968 to Claude Bonnefoy, on the definition of writing in the itinerary of the thinker and texts of Walter Benjamin that thematize the relation between the ‘I’, the memory and the past. With the interpretation of the legacy of the thinkers, it is sought to defend that the relationship between writing and biography is transversal, which guarantees the definition of research methodologies based on first person as laboratories that dialogue with theoretical procedures, language practices and enunciation policies. This paper is structured as a defense of the circumstantial and fictional character of the ‘I’ that is assumed in academic writings, which also encounter literary experiments around the place of ‘I’ in textuality.
Keywords: Writing. Michel Foucault. Walter Benjamin.
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