Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power: Part I
Modern Postmodernity and Discursive Power: Part I
Author(s): Algis MickunasSubject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Politics and society, Social Theory, Studies in violence and power, Politics and Identity
Published by: Lietuvos mokslų akademijos leidykla
Keywords: Power; discourse; subject; method; possibility; projection;
Summary/Abstract: The essay is designed to investigate the foundations of the conjunction of modern/postmodern premises that the world is a construct of discourses and their power. Such premises require the exclusion of the world of perception, including the lived world, and the appearance of the modern subject and its specific interpretation of reality. The question is as follows: how must the modern subject access such reality when it is assumed that such reality is not accessible to direct, perceptual intuition? Here we encounter the way how the subject must construct methodological and theoretical discourses which do not represent, but ‘make’ modern reality.
Journal: Filosofija. Sociologija
- Issue Year: 33/2022
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 261-268
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English