Disquisition on Subjectivity: Interpretations and Insights

Abstract

The present paper investigates subjectivity from an interdisciplinary spectrum. The concept of subjectivity, its origin, consequences and significance have lingered human existence from antiquity. Subjectivity has been showered with myriads of interpretations over the period by great and gigantic names from varied disciplines i.e. history, philosophy, cultural studies, science et al.  The paper intends at a wholesome view on the concept compendiously. It would set forth the varied interpretations and contemporary theories for subjectivity. Foucault is a colossus of power relations. He is one of the most prominent figures when it comes to subjectivity. He is inevitable and paramount, with him came a revolutionary insight in the theory of subjectivity. It became the interplay of power relations. The paper will diligently analyse on how Foucault unravelled strategic relationships between histories and all its practices to illuminate the truth about context and it claims. Foucault’s subjects are conduits, bearers or sites of discourses of power and knowledge, enlightening the establishment of social construction of subjectivity by the means of moral agency and coercive ideology.