Foucault’s Genealogy in War: A Creative Element of Violence

• Authors: Dworakowska Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this article, I make an attempt to elucidate the problem of violence in Foucault’s genealogy that, following Nietzsche’s genealogy, seems to be based on the concept of a conflict of forces. Thus, the war of forces that constitutes history is the first dimension in which the presence of violence can be described in Foucauldian philosophy. The second dimension refers to violence taken as the effect of an interplay between forces. Both aspects allow us to think on violence, not in terms of natural objects, but in terms of relations and simultaneously to challenge the established concept of violence as something necessarily related to brute force or aggression.

Keywords

EN

violence; non-violence; genealogy; event; theory of forces; Herkunft; Entstehung

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2(8)
• Pages: 26-39

Dates

published

2019-07-31

Contributors

author

Dworakowska Katarzyna

• Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2019.0015