Draft/In-Progress
Based on Foucault's description/definition of the "speech act" of avowal (on pp. 15-17).
Avowal (as a passage from unsaid to truly said)
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Subject of Avowal
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Subject to whom avowed (the other who recognizes)
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Costly (cost not in the act, but in the content)
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Freely-stated (such that the subj
enters obligation)
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Submission within a power relation
(power-over)
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Modifies or transforms the subject
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Subjects
of Avowal
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Four
Qualities of Avowal
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Lecture 1:
Iliad |
Antilochus
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Menelaus, Achilles, etc.
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Yes; costs him the race prize
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Yes; by not taking the oath, A confirms the truth
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Yes; b/w A and M; also between A and the Gods
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Yes; as "restoring" (p. 40) truth; transforms A's relation to others
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Lecture 2:
Oedipus Rex |
Shepherd of Cithareon
(not Teresias/Apllo, nor Jocasta/Oedi)
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Oedipus & Chorus
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Yes; costs the slave
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Yes; "despite the fact" that avowed under threat (79; cf. 16)
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Yes; b/w shepherd and Oedipus
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Not really; but it transforms Oedipus
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Lecture 3: Stoics
Examination of Conscience Exposure of Soul |
Seneca Serenus |
Seneca (98) Seneca |
No No |
Yes
Yes
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No
Yes
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No change in status of subject; gives subject tranquility (97) and memory (99)
No; Seneca says he already was cured (103)
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Lecture 3
Christian Penance (exomologesis) |
Sinner (becomes Penitent) |
Church authority | Yes | Yes [Unclear]? | Yes |
Yes (105): exomologesis
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Lecture 4
Christian Monasticism (4th-5th c.) (exagoreusis) |
Christian Monk
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Director |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes (126, 129) |
Yes |
Lecture 5
Fixed Penance (7th c.); "juridificaiton" -- p. 178ff. Sacrament of Penance (11th-13th c.) -- p. 184ff. |
Sinner Sinner |
Community Confessor |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Lecture 6
Judicial Avowal (16th c. - 18th c.) -- p. 201-11 Modern Examination (19c. -- ) -- p. 211ff. |
Accused Accused (Dangerous Individual) |
Judge (as sovereign) Examiner (see 211) |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
Yes Yes |
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