The intelligibility of practice : between Foucault and Sartre
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description: By questioning the logic of practice as the main topic of intellectual life in France in the 1960s, we shall undertake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanist dispute, we shall endeavor to bring forward a topic these two authors share: the proposal of an attempt at the intelligibility of practice, based on a duly defined historic material. Such a confrontation will enable us to examine thoroughly the notions of praxis, genealogy, and the politics of truth. This will entail radically new theories about a “situated thought” shared by both the universal intellectual and the specific intellectual, about a “historic and philosophical” practice which will not hold its object – the “practical ensembles” too close and will not derealize or overhang it, in a complex relation between past and present. The theoretical space which is open in this manner between Foucault and Sartre on the question of the intelligibility of practice also permits a confrontation with Marx and marxisms (Althusser mainly), as well as with social sciences (Bourdieu mostly).
landing page: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00995333
identifier: NNT: 2013BOR30035
keyword: althusser
keyword: archaeology
keyword: archeologie
keyword: bourdieu
keyword: concret
keyword: concrete
keyword: dialectics
keyword: dialectique
keyword: foucault
keyword: genealogie
keyword: genealogy
keyword: histoire
keyword: history
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: intellectual
keyword: intellectuel
keyword: lutte
keyword: marxism
keyword: marxisme
keyword: politics-of-truth
keyword: politique-de-la-verite
keyword: practice
keyword: pratique
keyword: praxis
keyword: production
keyword: sartre
keyword: shsphilhumanities-and-social-sciencesphilosophy
keyword: structuralism
keyword: structuralisme
keyword: struggle
keyword: theses
keyword: totalisation
issued: 2026-05-05T10:26:16.531659
modified: 2026-05-05T10:26:16.531663
language: fr
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