The concept of human nature: Biopolitics, gender and science in Modernity
Abstract
The dissertation examines the consequences of the fact that the concept of human nature exists in the theoretical system of social sciences. It analyses the changes that the making of an antihumanist mode of thinking will bring to the understanding of history.Thus the aim of the dissertation is the investigation of the structuralist and poststructuralist critique of the humanist tradition of the West. In particular, the dissertation investigates the thoughts of structuralist Louis Althusser and poststructuralists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on humanism. The dissertation analyses the argument of the three aforementioned scholars that humanism legalizes modern relations of power. It also examines their opinions about the theoretical weaknesses of humanism. Especially it aims to see if their work can offer the tools which will make possible for the social scientist to see things from a different prospective and to study objects that he/ she couldn’t otherwise because of humanism.
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