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Социоанализата и философското проблематизиране на комунизма: самонаследяването (Към проблема за един бъдещ виртуален музей на соц-а)
Socioanalysis and the Philosophical Problematization of Communism: Self-Inheritance (Towards The Problem of a Future Virtual Museum of Socialism)

Author(s): Deyan Deyanov
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: communism; heterotopia; heliotropism; supermodern capitalism; public space of history; museum.

Summary/Abstract: This article requires thinking at the borderline, where, while being a socioanalyst, the author must also be a philosopher: as Foucault would say, we must be critical ontologists of the present and of ourselves. For philosophy – and specifically the one that, as he says, raises “the question of the present as a philosophical event to which the philosopher who speaks about it belongs” (and the question of the form in which, in the critical ontology of the present, the questions of the Enlightenment and of revolution are intertwined) – is what can be of great help as a counselor to socioanalysis in its civil functions. It can help us in problematizing “the contradictions of the inheritance” of the society in which we lived before 1989 – a society still lingering in our own fractalized identities and in the broken destinies of the still-living “enemies of the people” and the “active fighters against fascism and capitalism”; but it can also help us decide to invest effort to resolve these contradictions, i.e., to successfully self-inherit ourselves (as far as this is still possible). By “successful self-inheriting despite the contradictions of in- heritance”, I mean the successful overcoming of the melancholic or schizophrenic “Í am who I am not” or “I am not who I am” of fractalized identity. This overcoming relies on those who point the imperative “Become who you are” towards themselves – i.e., those who by themselves seek again and, by their own effort, or by what Pierre Bourdieu calls “assisted self-analysis”, discover themselves. This is an overcoming that concerns all of us.

  • Issue Year: 47/2015
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 7-35
  • Page Count: 29