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The main goal of the following article is to present and justify the philosophical concept of degrowth as a real alternative to the cult of (unlimited economic) growth, the driving force of which is the pursuit of profit, which devastates the individual and the entire society, and last but not least, nature and the climate. It is also critical of t...
Political ecology is a recent development in contemporary scholarship. Contrary to popular belief, the French philosopher Bruno Latour was not its originator. Some scholars began to recognise that nature and politics were closely connected back to the time of Montesquieu. Nonetheless, Latour’s political ecology is original in that it features new o...
Manipulation as a specific form of power is characterized by a close connection with freedom. This makes it a very complicated and at the same time unusually interesting concept (especially in the current context). In the first part, the author aims to clarify the correlation of manipulation with its related categories such as coercion, compulsion,...
The contribution deals with the problem which, regardless of more than one possible resolution, still remains unresolved, namely the relationship between the natural biological condition of humans on one side and the politics and their social life on the other. Drawing on several well-known philosophical approaches, the author describes three main...
Foucault labeled modem society also "disciplinary" or "panopticon" society. Do these characteristics apply to contemporary society as well? If they do, what are the visible signs of that? Further, seen from this perspective, what are the differences (if any) between contemporary society and that described by Foucault? What techniques of power and c...
The aim of the first part of the paper is to make the reader acquainted with the selected parts of Vaross's large study of fanaticism (Le Fanatisme. Une analyse psychologique et axiologuiqe; Paris: Sorbonne 1947, 541 pp.). The second part deals with two contemporary most expanded kinds of fanaticism: political and ideological ones as two distinctiv...
The aim of the first part of the paper is to make the reader acquainted with the selected parts of Váross's large study of fanaticism (Le Fanatisme. Une analyse psychologique et axiologuiqe; Paris: Sorbonne 1947, 541 pp.). The second part deals with two contemporary most expanded kinds of fanaticism: political and ideological ones as two distinctiv...
Following the distinguished contemporary French philosopher Alain Badiou the author asks the question: What does it mean to change the world? Similarly, he proceeds from more abstract ontological presuppositions of the change (world, being, existence, identity) to the philosophy of political change focusing on the reach and character of the change...
There is nothing like power in itself. What we can experience is only the particular forms and effects of the power relations. Similarly, there is no single and universal definition of power. The concept of power embodies its various relations and aspects, such as power relations, the relationships between power and institutions, government, influe...
The contribution is intended to give an analysis of some key ideas of the ancient Greek political philosophy and their close relationships to myths. The paper focuses on the problems of the past, holism, etatism, close connections between ethics and political thinking, etc. At the same time the author pays attention to the simplifications occurring...
The contribution draws on the ideas which Foucault outlined in some of his interviews, but never gave them the form of a broader and comprehensive conception. Its central topic is the relationship between "regime of truth" and truth, as well as the relationship between the regime of truth and ideology. The most important problem concerning the regi...
The paper is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of one of the most notable but at the same time most controversial thinkers of the 20th century M. Foucault and his theory of power. Foucault keeps from creating any universal definition of the power. Instead he analyses the structure and the nature of the power relationships from every as...
Drawing on Foucault the author tries to answer the questions such as What is actually an event?, What is it that makes an usual phenomenon an event?, What is it that makes a historical event to emerge out of a set of banal events? It is evident, that the answers to these questions depend on the general view of history. Foucaultian history is nomina...
