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| Author(s): |
Marcos de Camargo Von Zuben
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2010-10-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi;
Hélio Rebello Cardoso Júnior;
Fausto Castilho;
Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo;
Jose Ternes
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| Advisor: | Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi |
| Abstract | |
Michel Foucault has produced a philosophy focused on the history of the subjectivation processes in western culture, which he named ontology of the present or historic ontology of ourselves. This research work has as its aim to investigate the ontological dimension that marcs and characterizes the thought of the French philosopher, discussing questions such as: what does it mean to think the subject in the historic plot? What comprehension of history and of subject is presupposed? What are the implications of this philosophy with the present? What are the relations between historic analysis and the problem of the ethical and political action? What notion of freedom is drown from these questions? The hypothesis from which we have departed suggests that the notions of limitexperience and of event are central to the understanding that history and freedom can only be thought together, one towards the other and from these two correlate notions. The historic event refers to the limit-experience, through which the ontological experience of constitution of the subject comes about. As a consequence we have the ethical and political experience demanding, in order to be freedom practices, the historic analysis that thinks the present as a problem and seeks its transformation, which is only possible as a limit transgression act. Freedom, as a limit transgression experience, needs the thought and the historic critic of the present to, setting itself in the limit, operate its overcoming. As a discussion and hypothesis justification method, we have aimed at showing how the notion of the language being as a limit-experience is the first step to question the sovereignty of the funding subject and we intend to argue that language accomplishes itself as a discursive practice, which has a regularity and a singular way of being, that configures itself in a shape of its own, designed by Foucault as archeological, being this concept discontinuous and decentered at the same time. What concur to the constitution of these historic formations are multiple strength relations, genealogic power/knowledge relations, or, still, the truth regime that constitutes the historic devices. Thus, the works of Foucault of the 1960s about contemporary literature are indispensable for the comprehension of the language being as limit-experience. The way through which Foucault thinks the limitexperience in the field of history is better understood through the notion of event as discursive practices, which refers to the truth games (knowledge) and to the government relations over the others and over itself (power). Finally, departing from the texts of Foucault of the 1970s and 1980s, we will strive to discuss the sense of the present ontology as a necessary work of the thought towards the limit transgression and the instauration of freedom practices. As a conclusion, we affirm the thesis that the notion of strategy is the concept which articulates the historic formation of the limit practices and the ethical and political position that demands its transgression (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 05/53995-3 - Entre historia e liberdade: a ontologia do presente em michel foucault |
| Grantee: | Marcos de Camargo Von Zuben |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |