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Copyright Sociolosko Udruzenje Srbije i Crne Gore (Sociological Association of Serbia and Montenegro) 2012

Abstract

In this paper we will try to offer a systematic insight into the relation of everyday practices and public space. By examining the work of two of the most influential authors in this field, Foucault and Lefebvre, we will try to provide a theoretical explanation of intuition that (public) space represents one of the key constitutive elements of free action. In the first part of the paper, we will consider Foucault's notion of heterotopia in the interest of pointing towards a "spatially intermediated" self-reflection which, to a great degree, resembles the philosophical askesis form his so called letter work. Afterwards, we will consider in which sense Lefebvre's position that public space represents a Hegelian concrete abstraction - which entails dialectical analysis and tracking of complex historical contradictions - complements and deepens perspective that Foucault puts before us in his heterotopias. In that vein, it will be shown that both authors, despite the difference in their theoretical starting points, defend the idea of such a public space in which all signifiers are removed in the interest of "opening space" for the free agent. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
JAVNI PROSTOR I SLOBODNO DELANJE: FUKO VS. LEFEVR3/Public Space and Free Action: Foucault vs. Lefebvre
Author
Prodanovic, Srðan; Krstic, Predrag
Pages
423-436
Section
Izvorni naucni clanak
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sociolosko Udruzenje Srbije i Crne Gore (Sociological Association of Serbia and Montenegro)
ISSN
00380318
e-ISSN
24060712
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Serbian
ProQuest document ID
1314729001
Copyright
Copyright Sociolosko Udruzenje Srbije i Crne Gore (Sociological Association of Serbia and Montenegro) 2012