{"id":13995,"date":"2024-09-01T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/?post_type=publikation&#038;p=13995"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:51:09","slug":"thinking-and-unthinking-the-present-philosophy-after-foucault","status":"publish","type":"publikation","link":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/publikation\/thinking-and-unthinking-the-present-philosophy-after-foucault\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking and Unthinking the Present: Philosophy after Foucault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What might a contemporary philosophical practice after and following Foucault look like? After briefly analyzing Foucault\u2019s rather ambiguous stance towards academic philosophy in his posthumously published\u00a0<em>Le discours philosophique<\/em>, we argue for continuing his historico-philosophical practice of diagnosing the present. This means taking up his analytic heuristic (with its three dimensions of power, knowledge and subjectivity) rather than his more concrete diagnostic concepts and the specific historical results they yield. We argue that the common methodological operation on each of the three axis is to shift the perspective from the given legitimacies, norms, identities and selves to their historical, conflict-ridden emergence. Practicing philosophy in this way allows developing Foucauldian contributions in two contemporary philosophical debates: critical ontology and political epistemology. While ontology and epistemology might seem surprising fields to work in for philosophers inspired by and critically loyal to Foucault, we attempt to dispel these reservations and illustrate the stakes in both debates, pointing to the urgent issues of ecological questions and of the problematization of untruths in politics respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saar, Martin; Vogelmann, Frieder (2024): Thinking and Unthinking the Present: Philosophy after Foucault. In: Foucault Studies, (36), S. 31\u201354.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13996,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"publikation_cat":[98],"disciplines":[71],"series":[],"class_list":["post-13995","publikation","type-publikation","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publikation_cat-zeitschriftenartikel","disciplines-philosophie"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation\/13995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikation"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publikation_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikation_cat?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=13995"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/normativeorders.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}