Bunyan, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Sim
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Spiritual Autobiography ◽  
Political Turmoil

This chapter surveys examples of the use of poststructuralist and postmodernist theory to analyse Bunyan’s work. The primary concerns and general agenda of poststructuralist/postmodernist theory are identified to assess their applicability to Bunyan’s writings (particularly his fiction and spiritual autobiography), focusing on the concepts of difference, différance, discourse, grand and little narratives, and the differend, as outlined in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. It is argued that such theories emphasize instability, and that this was a prominent feature of life in later seventeenth-century England: a period of considerable socio-political turmoil in which various ideological narratives were vying for power. Bunyan is seen to be someone constantly struggling against difference, différance, and differends: a factor that renders his writings particularly receptive to poststructuralist/postmodernist readings.

La scommessa democratica e l'individualismo contemporaneo

2010 ◽  
pp. 121-134
Author(s):  
Philippe Corcuff
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Norbert Elias

Il saggio, nato da una conferenza sul tema della democrazia organizzata da "Attac", č una trattazione della questione dei processi di individualizzazione e disindividualizzazione in relazione all'impegno politico che ripercorre la produzione sociologica recente e attraversa le analisi di autori come Norbert Elias, Jacques Derrida e Michel Foucault. Particolare attenzione č rivolta al problema dei presupposti impliciti operanti nell'analisi sociologica e a quanto da essi deriva sul piano valutativo. L'autore, che propone un recupero critico della nozione di individualitÀ, mette in guardia da un lato rispetto a una considerazione atemporale delle categorie sociologiche e politiche, dall'altro rispetto alle riduzioni semplificanti dell'individualismo di cui sottolinea invece l'irriducibile complessitÀ.

scholarly journals "NINGUÉM ESQUECE UMA COISA DESSAS": PROBLEMATIZAÇÕES SOBRE PARRICÍDIO E HOSPITAIS DE CUSTÓDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcele de Freitas Emerim ◽  
Mériti de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Giorgio Agamben

Resumo O considerado inimputável é absolvido por não entender o caráter ilícito de seu ato, embora, por medida de segurança, seja internado compulsoriamente em um hospital de custódia e tratamento psiquiátrico (HCTP): uma instituição pertencente ao sistema penitenciário. Cria-se assim a ambígua figura dolouco infrator - ora criminoso, ora doente mental - que raramente vimos contemplada em discussões e ações nas áreas da saúde e do direito. Ainda menos acolhido será aquele que atentar contra a vida de seus genitores: o chamado parricida. A partir dos aportes teóricos de Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Derrida, este trabalho discute discursos e práticas que se debruçam tanto sobre a questão da loucura, da infração e do parricídio quanto sobre a instituição do HCTP como modalidade de contenção e encaminhamento para os inimputáveis; assim como serão apresentadas discussões a partir das falas de pessoas classificadas como loucas, infratoras, parricidas - internadas em um HCTP.

scholarly journals Konstytucjonalizm wobec „zemsty postmodernizmu”

2017 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Adam Sulikowski
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Ernesto Laclau ◽  
Constitutional Discourse

CONSTITUTIONALISM AND THE „REVENGE OF POSTMODERNISM”The main purpose of this article is to discuss the current situation of constitutional discourse as aresult of „Revenge of postmodernism”. This „Revenge” shows itself in taking over the methods of the leftist critique of democratic institutions by the radical right. This „Barbarization” of subtle methods of left-wing criticism leads to far-reaching consequences unforeseen by its founding fathers — Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler. The author, using various theories formulated by Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau and Artur Kozak, seeks to explain this phenomenon and to show its implications for the future evolution of the constitutional discourse.

scholarly journals Violência urbana no documentário contemporâneo brasileiro: uma questão de diferença e poder

E-Compós ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Souza
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Violencia Urbana

Este trabalho quer investigar os fatores que possibilitam a recorrente presença dos segmentos socialmente marginalizados na produção de documentários brasileiros após 1993 ou da “retomada”. Nosso enfoque concentra-se nos documentários que apresentam como personagens pessoas ou grupos diretamente vinculados ao contexto de violência urbana. Partimos do pressuposto que a visibilidade conquistada por esses setores relaciona-se, de uma forma ou de outra, às demarcações da “diferença” e às estruturas de poder. Para tanto, tomaremos como referência a leitura do conceito de différance, de Jacques Derrida, empreendida por Stuart Hall e os estudos sobre formações e estruturas de poder realizados por Michel Foucault e Gilles Deleuze

scholarly journals Ki vagyok én? - Szárnyas fejvadász 2049

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 307-312
Author(s):  
Pál Gerdesits
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Ferdinand De Saussure ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Proper Definition ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Philosophical Questions

My essay focuses on the ontological crisis articulated in the film Blade Runner 2049, the sequel for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. This film is based on the conflict between humans and androids called replicants who would like to live equally to humans. In my opinion the root of their opposition lies on the inability to give a proper definition of what we normally call ‘human’. In this writing I present and analyse the nature of this conflict and also the philosophical questions (representation, freedom, self-identity etc.) arising from it based on the ideas of philosophers like Michel Foucault. Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida and Ferdinand de Saussure.

scholarly journals Exclusive language: The tool to empower and create identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananda Geyser-Fouche
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
South African Context ◽  
Literary Theories ◽  
African Context ◽  
Qumran Community ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

This article used some postmodern literary theories of philosophers such as Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva to scrutinise a selection of texts from the post-exilic period with regard to the exclusive language employed in these texts. Lyotard�s insights relate to and complement Foucault�s concept of �counter-memory�. Foucault also focuses on the network of discursive powers that operate behind texts and reproduce them, arguing that it is important to have a look from behind so as to see which voices were silenced by the specific powers behind texts. The author briefly looked at different post-exilic texts within identity-finding contexts, focusing especially on Chronicles and a few Qumran texts, to examine the way in which they used language to create identity and to empower the community in their different contexts. It is generally accepted that both the author(s) of 1 & 2 Chronicles and the Qumran community used texts selectively, with their own nuances, omissions and additions. This study scrutinised the way the author(s) of Chronicles and the Qumran community used documents selectively, focusing on the way in which they used exclusive language. It is clear that all communities used such language in certain circumstances to strengthen a certain group�s identity, to empower them and to legitimise this group�s conduct, behaviour and claims � and thereby exclude other groups.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Based on postmodern literary theories, this article compares the exclusive language used in Chronicles and in the texts of the Qumran community, pointing to the practice of creating identity and empowering through discourse. In conclusion, the article reflects on what is necessary in a South African context, post-1994, to be a truly democratic country.Keywords: Exclusive language; inclusive; Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu; Derrida; Qumran Chronicles

A First Homage

2018 ◽  
pp. 362-369
Author(s):  
Christophe Bident
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Tel Quel

Looks at a special issue of the journal Critique, produced in homage to Blanchot in 1966. The chapter goes on to detail the relations between Blanchot and various theoreticians and avant-garde thinkers of the late 1960s, for instance Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and the Tel Quel group.

7. Michel Foucault and governmentality

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Common Currency

‘Michel Foucault and governmentality’ talks about Michel Foucault, who is often associated with the poststructuralist and postmodernist ideas of Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. Lyotard’s famous La condition postmoderne in 1979 gave common currency to the term postmodern. Texts that contributed to mental climates in diverse ways are being adapted to the passage of time and alteration of circumstance. Derrida’s 'arche-writing' is an innovative approach to the study of texts. Derrida claimed that the author’s intentions are constrained by language and logic that relied upon the expression of ideas, as the text could go beyond the limits imagined by the author.

scholarly journals A circularidade da escrita de Lygia Fagundes Telles

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-570
Author(s):  
Carlos Magno Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Lygia Fagundes Telles

Resumo: Este ensaio apresenta uma reflexão filosófica sobre a circularidade da escrita de Lygia Fagundes Telles pela impessoalidade do texto literário pregada pelos pós-estruturalistas Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes e Jacques Derrida. Como modelo, faz-se a análise da metanarratividade no conto “Senhor diretor”, da coletânea Seminário dos ratos (1977). Esse texto expõe o jogo de dissimulação no qual o dito é apagado pelo murmúrio do não dito. Com isso, reconhecem-se os processos ambíguos da escrita, que dissimula referências ao mundo externo, enquanto fala de si.

Critiques and Integrations of Phenomenology

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Federico Leoni
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Phenomenology played a central role in twentieth-century philosophy. But, from the second half of the century, many alternative philosophical movements emerged. Despite their radical criticism of phenomenology, they regularly touched upon themes that had been originally propounded by phenomenology itself. This is true of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. At the basis of their approaches, there is the need for a new version of the transcendental, the idea of an impure transcendental, and the intuition of a non-transcendental structure of the transcendental, which they all name “difference.” Phenomenology could draw useful insights from these perspectives: e.g., a more continuous view of the range of psychopathological experiences; a more exact comprehension of the different temporal and spatial structures of psychopathological worlds, as the internal possibilities and infinitesimal variations of the transcendental; and a more critical way of thinking through the structure of institutions and the normativity that dominates them.

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