Commonalities and differences between Max Weber and Michael Foucault on the theme of “rationalization of the body”

Bu çalışmanın temel hedefi çağdaş Batı felsefesinin iki önemli ismi olan Max Weber’in ve Michael Foucault’nun eserlerinde geçen ‘bedenin ussallaşması’ temasını düşünürlerin algılayış benzerlikleri ve ayrıksamalarını göz önüne alarak kavramsalı yeniden değerlendirmektir. İki felsefeci de modernite süreçlerini şiddetli olarak eleştirirken, bedenin ussallaşması ve bedenin kimlik belirliliğine dair görüşleri ve açılımları ortak yönlerini temel kaynağını modernite projesine olan eleştirilerden kaynaklamışlardır. Bu bakımdan, çalışma bedenin ussallaşması olgusunun karmaşık bir süreç olduğunu ve bu sürecin gelişiminde bireyi belirleyen ve bedeni yeniden tanımlayan bir çok dinamiğin var olduğu olgusun altını çizmektedir.

“Bedenin ussallaşması” teması üzerinde Max Weber ve Michael Foucault arasındaki yakınsamalar ve farklılıklar

The main objective of this paper is to elucidate the very nature of ‘the rationalization of the body’ in regard to the convergence and divergences as envisioned in the works of Max Weber and Michael Foucault. While both of the thinkers may be deemed to be important critiques of the modernity process, their insights reveal certain commonalities as the came to deal with the rationalization of the body and individuation of the body along with differences that can be traced back to their roots in their critiques about the modernity project. In such respect, the study emphasizes that rationalization of the body has been a complex process and it italicizes that different dynamics came to redefine the body and individuate the individual along with the continuation of the process.

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