Open AccessDlaczego Anglosasi nie lubią Foucaulta?
Author(s) -
Michał Podniesiński
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
civitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-0353
pISSN - 1428-2631
DOI - 10.35757/civ.2010.12.07
Subject(s) - michel foucault , criticism , sovereignty , meaning (existential) , power (physics) , epistemology , philosophy , state (computer science) , sociology , law , political science , politics , computer science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
The author presents a criticism of the modern concept of power and, specifically, of the concept of ’sovereignty’ as articulated by Michel Foucault. What does it consist in, and what meaning does the undermining, by a French philosopher, of the idea of the legitimisation of power have for a modern state? A polemic with Foucault’s views, by Charles Taylor, serves as a departure point for the aforesaid considerations.