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After a very well formulated title new on the Polish market book on the philosophy of Michel Foucault, one might expect much. Particularly Foucault’s concept that analysis precedes it interesting interpretation Kafka's parable Before the law. Bartholomew went to Blesznowski first expand the metaphoric image, which in its strength could be accompanied copyright whole plan and bond it. Kafka's hero is here because presented as a person who obtains his identity through the duration of the relationship with power. Unfortunately, the battle for the next person wanting to increase only after strongly in the early awakened appetite.
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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.
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Filo-Sofija
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2010
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vol. 10
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issue 1(10)
73-106
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One of the major obstacles to reconstructing Foucault’s attitude towards an authorship issue is multiplicity of his own roles which as an author he fulfilled. An Authorship as a theme of his texts, as a prefiguration of nonexistent “Man” and his own authorship as a problem, as a way of “detaching myself from myself” – all these are the forms of Foucauldian ideas about an authorship and, at the same time, forms of his consciousness of his own authorship. Foucault historicizes and dissipates an authorship: an author is a function rather than the originator of texts. Writing, in this perspective, is a kind of conversion, decomposition of subjectivity into something else and even explosion. To say “I” doesn’t prove to be an ego. Additionally, Foucault notoriously suggests that his books are fiction. To be an author in this way is a way of being within the discourse and, as a consequence of it, to be trapped in its power. Foucault’s own rewriting of his theoretical biography includes turns and returns: as he repeatedly claims, he wrote in order to transform himself. He uses the processes of writing to simulate production of his subjective identity and, at the same time, to summarize, recapitulate his own oeuvre from current position. To cope with this suggestive and bizarre claims one should employ Roland Barthes distinction: écrivains (authors) et écrivants (writers). When Foucault-écrivain decomposes his ego, his own mode of existence by the use of writing, Foucault-écrivant, in an act of writing, writes himself, as an author. When Foucault-écrivain “writes fictions”, Foucault écrivant, in an act of “self-writing” (l’écriture de soi), establishes the object of a critique – Foucault.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2014
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vol. 69
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issue 10
835 – 846
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The paper deals with parrhesiastic practices of the Cynic Diogenes of Sinope. Cynic parrhēsia, the freedom of speech, works on two inseparable levels: on the individual-ethical level as the practice of truth-telling aiming at truthful and frank relationship to oneself; and as an educational practice on the level of social criticism. First, we analyse parrhēsia as a part of the Socratic care of the self (ἐπιμέλεια ἑαυτοῦ), and as one of the modes of truth-telling, which Foucault characterizes as the discourse of ēthos. Further, we analyse Ancient sources depicting Diogenes’ approach to others in different situations with an emphasis on his gestural argumentation and comic use of body as well as on his practical refutation of other philosophers.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2015
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vol. 70
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issue 9
770 – 777
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Our aim in this article is to offer an ethical and political approach to human body and life of a human being, deriving from the common reading and interpreting the famous Foucault’s writing on bio-politics as well as the shift of the relationship between ethics, life, sensual perception and corporeality made by Levinas in the 1960s and 1970s.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2021
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vol. 76
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issue 8
596 – 607
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The author of this article concentrates on the problem of dispositif in the context of web 2.0 while using the approach of new media epistemology, particularly Foucault’s genealogy. He does so thanks to the shift from poststructuralist interpretation of panopticism (Foucault 2000) towards the synopticism of network (Bauman, Lyon 2013) described by surveillance studies. Thanks to this comparison, he presents the main thesis of this article based on the assumption that producers (Bruns 2008) are freer. Therefore they generate content that is more based on the essence of arbitrariness. Based on the conclusions mentioned above, he defines dispositif of web 2.0 eventually.
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The major problem of Michel Foucault’s emancipative ethics is its dangerous ambivalence. The absolutization of human autonomy is only apparent; in fact, Foucault sees man as a limited biological organism. Most of his work is focused on shifting man’s attention and ambition from the cognitive attitude to the expressive approach, whose purpose is “emancipative disintegration”. Taking into consideration the social side of experience (Erlebnis) we want to underline its unreal and simulative consequences, which instead of leading to epistemological and ethical liberation in fact become nothing more than a great confinement of modern man inside his subjective phantasmagorias. His freedom thus becomes both absolute and worthless.
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The aim of this study is to propose and present a suitable methodological framework based on the principle of discourse analysis, which would be suitable for the implementation of research on the museum environment, in particular museum exhibitions and their narratives. The potential of the dispositive analysis of the museum phenomenon is enormous, but the elaboration of this methodology in the context of museum research in our environment is lacking. This study aims to add to this underdeveloped area and provide readers and researchers with key information concerning the possibilities and uses of this methodology. As a suitable methodological tool, the study chooses dispositive analysis, which has advantage of allowing the analysis of materializations in addition to the discourse plane, which is an advantage for the analysis of exhibitions and the exhibits housed therein. Dispositive analysis, which in the study is primarily based on S. Jäger’s approach, enables the examination of materializations without overlooking the role of visitors and the broader context of the exhibition, which, by its very nature of membership of a cultural institution, is always discursively conditioned. The relationship between the museum and discursive reality is thus a thematic part of the study, as is the exploration of the topics of discourse (Foucault) and the dispositive.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2014
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vol. 69
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issue 6
461 – 471
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The papers´ focus is on the idea of modern technological human enhancement. On one hand it tries therapeutically to correct the biological defects of humans, and intentionally to create and enhance their abilities on the other. The issue is approached from two perspectives: ethical and bio-political. The explorations derive from Habermas ´s analyses of ethical discourse, which have been influenced by new technologies. It is shown in bio-political context based on Foucault´s descriptions of bio-power, that human life, though permanently given attention by political power, has been so far approached mainly from the biological perspective. The biological, however, without being more deeply rooted and socially acknowledged, is often easily misused by totalitarian decision-makers. Important consequences follow from both of these perspectives.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2017
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vol. 72
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issue 10
779 – 788
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Michel Foucault characterizes philosophy as an attitude which consists in asking following questions: Who are we? What is this present we are in and which we are? Philosophy, he says, is ontology of the present. This definition might generate two further questions: Who are this “we”? What are the relations between this present and the current actuality which is communicated to us?
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The following essay is aimed at confining the scope of The Theory of Communicative Action apropos of the problem of personal identity. For Habermas the notion of personal identity may be derived directly from the conclusions of his social theory: it is the specific part of the lifeworld (the meanings connected to the self) reproduced via communicative action. As communicative action is the mechanism of social integration as well, it is impossible to describe theoretically a personal identity that is distinct from the social in the Habermasian approach. This problem is solved in the paper with the help of Foucault's ideas on social power and subjectivation. Foucault introduces a constitutive dimension of power: he originates the modem subject from the individualization of power relations. By examining the subject in its opposition to social power, he offers an opportunity to describe a personal identity that is distinct from the social. In the author's opinion, by approaching to the concept of communicative action from a Foucaultian perspective, certain elements of power in the series of speech acts (that is certain dogmatic language uses) may be introduced as the expressions of the opposition against the logic of action coordination referring to the contours of personal identity. These dogmatic language uses may be specified based on the Kohlbergian-Habermasian ideas on moral development. In these cases the dogmatic language use does not require emancipation as it refers to personal identity, in this sense it reveals the limits of the scope of communicative rationality. In the final part of the paper the recognition-theoretical presuppositions of personal identity are introduced.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2016
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vol. 71
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issue 6
437 – 449
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The article draws on the conclusions of the discussion which on one hand showed the reception of Foucault’s “aesthetics of existence” and on the other hand offered a partial reflection on the “topicality of the aesthetic” in postmodern philosophy. The issue is understood in question as related to the process of aestheticization from modernity to contemporary self-controlled society. The focus is on questions such as „What does the tendency to give one’s own existence a mark of “visible beauty” mean? How does the aesthetic promote itself in non-aesthetic (especially ethical) spheres of life? Attention is paid first of all to how the aesthetics of existence and the requirements of a higher standard individual ethics are interconnected. The conceptions of M. Foucault, J. Früchtl and W. Schmid are referred to as the main sources of consideration.
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