Władza i to, co politycznie nieokreślone: niewczesne rozważania o dekonstrukcji
Power and That which is Politically Indefinable: The Untimely Meditations about Deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to reconstruct political thought contained in the so-called French theory, associated with postmodernism and known as post-structuralism and deconstruction. The theory had to provide answers to questions like, what is the cause of inequalities and injustices in democracy? How is scientific knowledge generated by public research institutions like universities involved in the creation of these inequalities and injustices? What is the phenomenon of power and submission in the case of free people who live in a state which should safeguard their human and civil rights? This paper consists of preliminary comments and six main parts. Part one describes social and political context in which postmodernism arises. Part two deals with French theory. Part three relates to deconstructive political theory and its research method. Part four is about violence and seduction as forms of power exercised also by its theorists themselves. Part five deals with both politics and power reduced to legal order. Part six, the last one, is about justice understood as utopian pulses contained within theory – it includes the conclusions of deconstructive political analysis.

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