Abstract
The significance of negativity as a way for conceptual determination in Hegelian dialectics is well-known. Authors such as Gilles Deleuze have underlined, on the other hand, how this notion of (dialectical) negativity is incompatible with a Nietzschean perspective of interplay of forces and affirmation of difference. There is here a real distension (rather than a distinction) — a fissure enabling one to think what connects and inevitably dissociates rationalistic and deconstructive philosophical perspectives on language. In this fissure it is constituted, for instance, the space of dispersion of the so-called Foucaultian statements ( enonces ), the focus of his archeology. This essay addresses the context in which the Foucaultian notion of enonce emerges. It does so by criticizing first the dialectical notion of negativity. It then considers some semiological notions used by post-structuralist authors, such as plethora of signs and floating signifier. In a third moment, examples are taken from a literary work, Vitor Ramil’s Pequod , in order to illustrate more concretely our discussion.
Highlights
The significance of negativity as a way for conceptual determination in Hegelian dialectics is well-known
dialectical) negativity is incompatible with a Nietzschean perspective of interplay
This essay addresses the context in which the Foucaultian notion of énoncé emerges
Summary
A importância da negatividade como forma de determinação conceitual na dialética hegeliana é bem conhecida. Autores como Gilles Deleuze têm sublinhado, por outro lado, como essa noção de negatividade (dialética) é incompatível com a perspectiva nietzschiana de jogo de forças e afirmação da diferença. Por exemplo, o espaço de dispersão dos chamados enunciados foucaultianos, foco de estudo da sua arqueologia. Este artigo contextualiza a noção foucaultiana de enunciado, a partir de uma crítica à noção dialética de negatividade, e considerando também o uso que fazem autores pós-estruturalistas de noções oriundas ainda da linguística, como pletora de significado e significante flutuante. Exemplos tirados de uma obra literária, o Pequod de Vitor Ramil, são analisados no intuito de conferir um caráter mais concreto à nossa discussão. Palavras-chave: Michel Foucault, Vitor Ramil, crítica literária, filosofia, desconstrução. Foucault’s Statement in Context: opacity of discourse versus conceptual determination
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