Inventio subiecti. The invention of the modern subject

Following on from the opening lecture delivered on February 13, 2014, the 2013-2014 lectures were devoted to work on the history of subjectivity, undertaken in recent years under the title of archaeology of the subject, and organized around two guiding questions: how did the thinking subject enter philosophy? How did man enter philosophy as the subject and agent of thought and will? At this stage of my career at the Collège de France, I felt it necessary and useful to divide my lectures into two parts: a more theoretical one, directly linked to the announced theme, and a more methodological one, designed to define and illustrate the nature and meaning of the "archaeological" approach in philosophy and the history of philosophy. I therefore divided my lectures into twelve lecture sessions, from March 6 to June 26, and ten seminar sessions - the seminar regularly following the lecture, from March 20 onwards, as a kind of "second hour". These 22 sessions gave me the opportunity to set out my problematics, present my analytical tools and define my corpus on both a philosophical and historical level. A study day organized in May 2014, directly in line with one of the themes addressed by the lecture, launched a series of meetings that will be repeated, year after year, under the title " Pro et contra. Journées d'études médiévales au Collège de France".