The Humanities and Intellectual Agency : Grounding Dissonance between Michel Foucault and Edward Said

Idrissi , Abdelbassat Mounadi

doi:10.5281/zenodo.14031573

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The Humanities and Intellectual Agency : Grounding Dissonance between Michel Foucault and Edward Said

Authors:

Idrissi , Abdelbassat Mounadi

Publisher:

Democratic Arab Center for Strategic, Political and Economic Studies

Main Topics:

Philosophy

Journal:

Arabic Journal for Translation Studies 2024 Vol.3 Issue 9, pp.395-408

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

264041

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Quarterly

eISSN:

27506142

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.14031573

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Abstract:

 In 2005, Karlis Racevkis, a Foucaultian scholar, published an article entitled "Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Affinities and Dissonances." He argues that the dissonances between the two started when Said discovered Michel Foucault's pro-Zionist politics after a meeting between the two in 1979. After that Said grew disenchanted with Foucault, and this disenchantment for Racevskis accounts for the divergence of the scholarly project of the two. This article seeks to correct this allegation. The differences between the two figures, I argue, had earlier precedents than this date. The differences originate in the beginning theoretical maxims of each. While Foucault rejects humanism, subjective will and agency, favoring instead a historiography that valorizes system over agency, history over individual will and discourse over intention and method, the latter items in the comparison were Said's theoretical prerogatives as his intellectual project stands on the firmer grounds of premeditated design on the part of meaning-producers to initiate oppositional meaning to the dominant discourse/power.

Article Details

The Humanities and Intellectual Agency : Grounding Dissonance between Michel Foucault and Edward Said

Authors:

Idrissi , Abdelbassat Mounadi

Publisher:

Democratic Arab Center for Strategic, Political and Economic Studies

Main Topics:

Philosophy

Journal:

Arabic Journal for Translation Studies 2024 Vol.3 Issue 9, pp.395-408

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

264041

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

27506142

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.14031573

Descriptors:

CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY

PHILOSOPHERS

PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM

HUMANISM

SUBJECTIVISM

Edward Said

Michel Foucault

Subjectivity

System

History

Issues

Article Details

Authors: Idrissi , Abdelbassat Mounadi

Publisher: Democratic Arab Center for Strategic, Political and Economic Studies

Main Topics: Philosophy

Journal: Arabic Journal for Translation Studies 2024 Vol.3 Issue 9, pp.395-408

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 10/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 264041

Frequency: Quarterly

eISSN: 27506142

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14031573

Descriptors:

Issues

Authors:

Idrissi , Abdelbassat Mounadi

Publisher:

Democratic Arab Center for Strategic, Political and Economic Studies

Main Topics:

Philosophy

Journal:

Arabic Journal for Translation Studies 2024 Vol.3 Issue 9, pp.395-408

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

10/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

264041

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

27506142

DOI:

10.5281/zenodo.14031573