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FOUCAULTOVA IZKUŠNJA: ŽIVLJENJE, ZGODOVINA, TRANSGRESIJA, AKTUALNOST
FOUCAULT’S EXPERIENCE: LIFE, HISTORY, TRANSGRESSION

Author(s): Robert Bobnič
Subject(s): Epistemology, Political Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Slovensko sociološko društvo (in FDV)
Keywords: Michel Foucault; experience; governmentality; genealogy; transgression;

Summary/Abstract: In his final works, Foucault was developing the concept of the historically singular form of experience (HSFI), in which the perspectives of knowledge, power and self converge. At the same time, Foucault places himself in the critical line of the genealogical relationship to time, from which another concept of experience – (limit) experience as a practice of desubjectivation – derived. The article thus builds on the assumption that experience is a concept that encapsulates Foucault’s thought in the most complex way, but has not yet been sufficiently thematised in the domestic academic space. In elaborating the concept of experience, the article follows Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of philosophy as a practice of creating concepts that are always in relation to history and becoming, which asks forthe question of the actuality of Foucault’s experience within so-called algorithmic governmentality.

  • Issue Year: 33/2018
  • Issue No: 86
  • Page Range: 25-44
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Slovenian