Abstract
"Nothing seems more dangerous to me,ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ Michel Foucault laments in his lecture at the CollÃÆ'Ã"šÃ‚¨ge de France on February 2, 1983, ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"than that much vaunted shift from politics [la politique] to the political [le politique], which in many contemporary analyses seems to me to have the effect of masking the specific problem and set of problems of politics.ââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ Why such a polemical reference to ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"contemporary analysesââ"šÂ¬Ã‚ in the middle of a discussion of the complex relationship between dynasteia (ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"the exercise of powerââ"šÂ¬Ã‚Â) and politeia (ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"problems of constitutionââ"šÂ¬Ã‚Â) with regard to an interpretation of parrhesia (ââ"šÂ¬Ã…"truth tellingââ"šÂ¬Ã‚Â) in Euripidesââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢s Ion? Why this outright dismissal of the shift to the political, which is in French a gender shift from the feminine to the masculine noun? And whom was Foucault thinking of in this passage of his lecture, which is so emphatic but at the same time rather enigmatic?
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | South Atlantic Quarterly |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- civilization
- culture
- history
- intellectualism
- philosophy
- politics