The article is not a historical but a sociological presentation of the “history of the senility”. It traces the transformations of definitions of the old age and elderly in the context of the social history of the state. Historical presentation aims to clarify present culture, namely roots of the images of ageing. At the basis of this paper there lies the assumption that all the notions, including political ones, are cultural constructs.
W artykule wskazuję różnice pomiędzy Foucaultem i Deleuze’em w definiowaniu i odgrywaniu roli filozofa-intelektualisty. Tłem dla analizy jest opis specyficznego usytuowania filozofa w polu akademickim pomiędzy uniwersytetem, gdzie nie może osiągnąć wyższej pozycji, a działaniem publicznym w roli intelektualisty. Tekst skupia się na tym, jak wyobrażenia o tym, kim jest filozof jako myśliciel i jako „intelektualista zaangażowany”, współgrały z napięciami i przeobrażenia w polu tej dyscypliny w XX wieku.
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In this article the author considers the differences between Foucault and Deleuze in defining the role of a philosopher as a public intellectual. The context for the analysis is the specific position of a philosopher in the academic field – between the university, where career advances may be curtailed, and the obligation to act publicly as an intellectual. The text focuses on perceptions of who a philosopher is as a “thinker” and as an “engaged intellectual” and on how these perceptions harmonized with tensions and transformations in the discipline in the twentieth century.
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