주권권력에서 생명권력으로성의 역사 1－앎의 의지 를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper aims to examine Foucault’s formation of power theory and transformation ofpower models in The History of Sexuality 1: The Will to Knowledge. This book is a work thatshows a crucial turning point in the development of Foucault’s power theory. It means theculmination of Foucault’s power concept, which has been going on since “The Order ofDiscourse” in the 1970s, and anticipates his power theory to be unfolded in the late 70s. Asmost of his lectures in the Collège de France and talks have been recently published, theoverall outline of his power theory is being revealed. Foucault sought various ways to definethe concept of power by 1975. First, in the light of the evolution of the concept of power,Foucault moves the field of power from the state or political structure to the society. He urgesthat power be understood as a strategy to be exercised, not possessed, and that power is understoodas a power relationship that inherently includes the relationship between resistanceand power. In particular, The History of Sexuality 1: The Will to Knowledge deepens and extendsthe concept of power as a ubiquitous, productive and resistant concept that is spreadingthroughout the social body. Second, in terms of the form of power, Foucault’s concept ofpower begins by criticizing the traditional sovereign power that defines human beings as legaland ideological subjects and goes, through disciplinary power that trains bodies and makesthem docile, into biopower that manages and controls population(social body). The workthat displays this expansion and development of power is The History of Sexuality 1: The Will toKnowledge. This paper examines Foucault’s theory of power from disciplinary power to biopowerin detail.