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Да преосмислим фукоянското интелектуално наследство през възможностите на една историческа социология на дискурсивните практики
Rethinking Foucault’s Intellectual Heritage through the Possibility of a Historical Sociology of Discursive Practices

Author(s): Stoika Penkova
Subject(s): Anthropology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Education, Psychology, Social Philosophy, Sociology, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Фондация за хуманитарни и социални изследвания - София
Keywords: discourse; subject; practice of the self; historical sociology of discursive practices

Summary/Abstract: This study attempts to read ‘displacingly’ Foucault for whom such concepts as freedom, activity and subjectness are important with regard to the constant focus on the critique of modernity and the ‘critical ontology of ourselves’. Hence, the stakes of this study and the challenges it faces are the following: 1) to critically rethink Foucauldian intellectual heritage emphasizing the ontological and epistemological thematizations of the conceptions of discourse, subject, practices of the self and of the possibility of changing ‘ourselves’; 2) by taking advantage of the methodological heuristic value of the Foucauldian problematizations, to try to present a reversed perspective towards the subject constitution and its activity (being-active), and therefore 3) to present a research stance working on the borders of the specific methodologies of Foucault and simultaneously retaining them, as a chance to develop a sociology of discursive practices which is non-classical in its conception and historical in its methodology.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44/1
  • Page Range: 103-120
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Bulgarian