Identity and Onthology of Cruelty: M. Foucault and H. Murakami Cover Image
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Идентичност и онтология на жестокостта: М. Фуко и Х. Мураками
Identity and Onthology of Cruelty: M. Foucault and H. Murakami

Author(s): Gulzhan Beysenova
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Identity; personal identity; violence; ontology of violence; “theater of violence“; “modern kind“; “obsolete kind“; “modern evil“; “obsolete evil“; disruption; dispositive culture

Summary/Abstract: The subject of an identity is of current concern subject in western and eastern philosophy, literature and art. In a modern world a social priority persists in appliance of autocratic relationship structure, mixed with the tendency to dissociation between people involving exertion of violence and envy. The subject of violence is the field of expression of human limits of tolerance and patience. In the scene describing the brutal public execution of R. Damien in M. Foucault’s “Discipline and punish: The Birth of the Prison“ a reader undergo basic affection, feel of horror and aversion to discipline of that time and to the “theater of violence“, where such action takes place. Manifestation of violence in sado-masochistic way is the form of covering-up disruption, the absence of distinct transition from the disciplinary techniques of the society to the self-techniques. In this particular case the event of philosophical journey to the world of inside mind, the beginning of transformation of a power institute, dissolution of morals of violent western civilization in the form of so-called meta-narratives of Enlightenment and humanism.

  • Issue Year: XIX/2010
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 159-166
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Bulgarian
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