A ORDEM DO DISCURSO FOUCALTIANA: UMA REFLEXÃO SOBRE CONTRIBUIÇÕES FILOSÓFICAS RELATIVAS À HISTORIOGRAFIA LITERÁRIA, LITERATURA E PRÁTICAS CRÍTICAS

• Main Author: Cristina Damasceno dos Santos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Regional do Cariri 2012-12-01
• Series: Macabéa
• Subjects: Understanding; Knowledge; Power; Discourse; Truth universal; Literary system
• Online Access: http://periodicos.urca.br/ojs/index.php/MacREN/article/view/389/305

Due to the prevalence of a network of discursive practices, in a social conjuncture in which discourses are built surrounded by ‘powers’ and ‘dangers’, knowledge would loose its legitimacy if destitute of its power aura that, inevitably, reaches it. In this context, the locus of the real only refract a perspective generated by discourses – the unexpired enunciation delimits its contours from the historically built and legitimated constructions that, based on a system of institutions, are the foundations to social practices. The effects of this dispositive of discursive knowledge are projected over the human, configuring a real discursive violence, imposing interdiction and coercion machinery and subjecting to control rules from these hegemonic discourses. In view of these considerations, the present work intends to analyze the contributions made by Foucault related to the transition to a new antifoundationist episteme, thus constructing a reflection about the comprehension of these legitimating processes of discursive concepts and practices to the field of the Literature studies. With the presented theoretical support, this article proposes to rethink issues related to the critical practice in the academy, amplifying a critical strategic and reflexive position to the literary systems in vogue.