MICHEL FOUCAULT: MINULOSŤ A SÚČASNOSŤ (K NIEKTORÝM OTÁZKAM SOCIÁLNEJ KONTROLY)

• Authors: Ivan Buraj , Sandra Palenčárová

Title variants

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Michel Foucault: Past and present (Selected problems of social control)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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Foucault labelled modern society also “disciplinary” or “panopticon” society. Do these characteristics apply to contemporary society as well? If they do, what are the visible signs of that? Further, seen from this perspective, what are the differences (if any) between contemporary society and that described by Foucault? What techniques of power and control do contemporary society apply and what norms? These general questions are intended to be examined in more details in the frame of the body discourse. More precisely, it will be shown, how the issue of body is approached in the obesity discourse. The related concept of the dispositive of power will be examined as well.

Keywords

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FOUCAULT; SOCIAL CONTROL; POWER

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 505 – 517

Contributors

author

Ivan Buraj

• Katedra filozofie a dejín filozofie FiF UK, Bratislava, Slovak Reublic

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Sandra Palenčárová