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The main aim of the paper is to analyse the role of the concept of “beast” and its relationship to political philosophy as well as Derrida’s deconstructive reading of Western philosophical tradition. The problematic significance of the concept of “beast” enables Derrida to re-articulate the relationship between the state, law, and justice. Justice seems to be grasped in the deconstruction of binary...
The aim of the present paper is to introduce Michel Foucault’s archaeology as a specific symptomatology. The thesis of symptomatology can be found in Nietzsche’s oeuvre where one can find a lot of papers analysing the relation between Nietzsche’s genealogy and Foucault’s conception of genealogy. However, Nietzsche appears also in the Les Mots et les Choses. This led us to interpreting the role of...
The text provides a description as well as an analysis of mental disorders as socially constructed entities while focusing on the category of normality not only in its medical sense but also in social and cultural one. Our methodology has to be understood as rooted in social constructionism. We work with concepts created within social anthropology and semiotics but also existentialist psychotherapy...
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