CHESTIUNEA IRANULUI: MICHEL FOUCAULT INVESTIGHEAZĂ
THE IRAN QUESTION: MICHEL FOUCAULT INVESTIGATES

Summary/Abstract: The present article is written in the very current context of the 13th day of the Middle East conflict, a date that captures, on the one hand, Tehran in a multidirectional attack positioning and, on the other hand, Israel alongside the USA, in an atemporal extrapolation ("without time limit") of the military offensive. Although regarding the Iran question (synthesized in the corpus of the article) in the manner of interpretation (reportage of ideas) of Michel Foucault as the philosophy and the reality of the Iranian Revolution from 1978-1979, he will completely and definitively refuse from the end of May 1979 any involvement, making no further public reference to Iran, Michel Foucault is being re-drawned (unwillingly!) into the updated perspectives regarding current events in Iran. In 1978, Michel Foucault accepted Alberto Cavallari's invitation to co-participate in the editions of the Corriere della sera, in a joint project ("Équipe Foucault"), which documented philosophical perspectives in a journalistic manner, in fact launching the concept-domain of reportage of ideas, as a way of identifying and deepening the way in which ideas and events intersect. The perpetuated tension is found, however, in the interrelationship of "Foucault's intellectual objectives" with the journalistic nature of the intellectual-philosopher, a hybrid valence that allows a double particularized side of Foucault – hesitant in Iran, certain in the West. In fact, Foucault thinks and re-calibrates – beyond the limitations of archaeological-genealogical research – his disposition towards an empirical orientation, the concrete presupposing triadically bringing together confusion, complexity, and immediacy.

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