Subject Agency Practise - Foucault -Dreyfus

for early Foucault, the subject is reduced to a function of discourse; for middle Foucault, writing can open up new worlds, and in later Foucault, freedom is understood as the power to question what is currently taken for granted, plus the capacity to change oneself and, perhaps, one's milieu. In short, while both Heidegger and Foucault reject the Enlightenment idea of an autonomous subject, they have a robust notion of freedom and action. And it will turn out for both thinkers that each person can modify his or her cultural practices by openness to embeddedness in them.

The goal of such care was to work upon oneself so as to produce one's life as a work of art, not to find a deep inner truth.

Heidegger and Foucault on the Subject, Agency and Practices

Hubert L. Dreyfus