The year is 1961. Michel Foucault has just published what would later become one of the most influential books of the postwar era, Histoire de la folie a I'age classique (Madness and Ciuilization). Foucault was accompanied by several contemporary thinkers many of whom are now household namesDeleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Harraway, Debord, Jameson and others. In thei...

In this article transmodernity will be described as the symbolic context within which, in the last decades, new formulations of selfhood and community have emerged that challenge consolidated representations of the world. The aim will be to examine and map out an illustrative range of discourses at the core of the transmodern scenario, highlighting the counterhegemonic potential of its symbolic...

In this paper we discuss the role organizational narrations can play in the field of knowledge management and develop a model on qualifying and evaluating narrations. As a necessary prerequisite we first clarify the epistemological nature of narrative knowledge opposed to discursive knowledge by referring to a distinction drawn by the French philosopher Lyotard. Narrative knowledge is character...

The relentlessly self-reflexive ways of representing reality now fashionably termed "postmodern" are flourishing in an increasingly wide range of domains. In social theory, postmodernism has been used to characterize the diverse philosophical work of such Continental post-structuralist theorists as Baudrillard, Lyotard, Derrida, and Foucault. Commentators have identified a multiplicity of other...

A principios de los años 80 se desató en Francia una polémica conocida como «el silencio intelectuales». En este texto abordaremos la singular postura Michel Foucault al respecto. Para ello realizaremos doble operación. Por un lado, planteamos hipótesis siguiente: pueden encontrar fundamentos que sostienen su posición análisis realizó sobre parrhesía a partir 80. segundo lugar, recorrido por au...

The article discusses the current revision of Western philosophical concepts, socio-cultural practices, culture everyday life, which hinder formation a nationally, civilizationally oriented worldview modern Russian youth. Interfering with almost main task national system education and upbringing — patriotic reader’s attention is focused on origins postmodern referring to works W. Reich, G. Marc...

Managing perceived intractable problems—seemingly irrevocable, difficult-to-solve, often values-driven conflicts—is a regular occurrence for public relations practitioners. Yet, understanding and managing such problems is outside of the bounds theories aimed primarily at building consensus. This paper builds on existing conflict-centered literature by carving out place dissensus-oriented or ago...