Geneology: a critical method-thlnking and differnt confrontation with the past, the present and the future

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Narges Imani marani 1
susan bastani 2
sharareh mehdizadeh 3
1 PhD Student .Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University
2 Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Alzahra University
10.22034/JCSC.2021.102392.1825
Abstract
< p >In this essay we try to study Focaults genealogical approach and his critical project as a kind of critical method-thinking and not a logical-formal method-instrument. The key character of this kind of critical method-thinking as a strategy is to positioning differently against the world and to appear reality differently and through it problematizing the presentness. However this present isn’t discrete from past and future than can be studied in a methodological isolation. By the way to an interpretation, one of critical indicators of genealogical method is to study simultaneously the past, the present and the future under the concept of power. So in this passage we study Focaults confrontation with the past through the essay “Nitsche, Genealogy, History”, the present through the essay “What is Critique?”, and the future through the essay “Intellectuals and Power”. The key concept that unifies these three confrontation is power. It is the concept that from the ontological respect isn’t owned by someone, but it is in the form of power relations.
Keywords
Geneology
Present
Past
Future
Power

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