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88 Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/slps90 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAPTER 1 'CARE OF THE SELF' AND POLITICAL RESISTANCE IN KANT'S NOTION OF HUMAN DIGNITY: A 'CRITICAL' AND NOVEL EXPLANATION Antonio Pele And if we were governed without the awareness of it? If what enables us to fight what governs us, would also put ourselves under an infinite governmentalization? Michel Foucault, Qu'est-ce que la Critique? (...) throughout their history, men have never stopped forming themselves, that is, to continu- ously displace their subjectivity, to form themselves through an infinite and multiple series of different subjectivities that will never have an ending and will never have us standing in front of something that would be man. Michel Foucault, Entretien avec Michel Foucault2 ABSTRACT This chapter shows that Kant's notion of human dignity can be understood as a novel 'care of the self' and an 'art of not being governed'. Drawing on a Foucauldian approach, it demonstrates that Kant intends to shape an ethical subject that strives for freedom and self-mastery. It also argues Kant's idea of dignity embodies a political and spiritual form of resistance against domi- nant relations of power and subjectivities. Thanks to this novel perspective, this Human Dignity Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 88, 3-22 Copyright © 2022 by Antonio Pele Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited ISSN: 1059-4337/doi:10.1108/S1059-433720220000088001 3

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