The burning games of fiction: Foucault and the redefinition of the meaning of thought
Abstract
The fragmentation of the world and the knowledge of the world in a variety of autonomous spheres constitute the inherence of modernity. Their effects influence science and arts, philosophy and historical praxis. Conceptual systems, models of communication and structures of administration tried to respond to this dispersion, offering diverse horizons of meaning. Although, even considering a degree of openness, those attempts always imply a principle of totalization of the reality by representation, or a reference of the language to the form of true, or a reduction of life to the logic of effectivity. Fiction is less ambitious and more precarious, but could offer an incommensurable form of relationship with the fragmentation of the modern world, not closing it at instance of any dispositive or form of consensus. Then, not aiming to establish literature as a form of the absolute, this paper aims to explore the concept of fiction that Foucault developed in the 1960s.
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