La individualidad contemporánea. Un análisis a partir de la experiencia de las personas con VIH/SIDA

Abstract

According to the current debate on the self, the emerging form of individuality in contemporary Western society echoes the increasing fragmentation and flexibility of the social world. Using the experience of mortality as made by people with HIV as a diagnostic tool and Foucault's archaeology of the self as the methodological framework, this article suggests a different interpretation. The self emerges as the source of a supposed stability, assuming an almost transcendental status despite evidence for the determination of the individual's biography by contingent events.