О господстве идеи господства: «воля к власти» в современной социальной теории. Часть II

Социологические исследования. 2023. № 5. С. 3–14.

Gofman A. B.

http://The article discusses the ideas of "power determinism" and "power reductionism", in particular, in relation to the field of scientific knowledge. Unlike the classical era of social science, based on the idea of an honest and unbiased search for truth, today the idea of scientific knowledge as politically engaged and subordinate to various social movements, acting under various "progressive" slogans, has gained extraordinary popularity. This ideology of conformism in relation to these movements largely occupies a dominant position in the Western university system today. A special role in the process of reducing scientific knowledge to the factor of power was played by the ideas of such left-wing anarchists and pioneers of "cathedral nihilism" as M.Foucault and P. Feyerabend. In their work, one can find the sources of a number of popular social movements for which truth is exclusively the product of certain forms of domination: class, racial, gender, colonial, etc.; the autonomy of scientific knowledge is denied. In part, the popularity of power determinism is explained by the strengthening of the factor of political power and the expansion of opportunities for its use and camouflage, in particular, thanks to modern information technologies. In general, the expansion of "power determinism" and "power reductionism" in the field of sociological knowledge leads to a reducing of its level and authority on a social and global scale.

Keywords: власть, социальная теория, наука, science, Мишель Фуко, domination, Michel Foucault, причины, господство, social theory, causes, power, effects, «Власть-знание» Мишеля Фуко, “power-knowledge”, Paul Feyerabend, следствия, Пол Фейерабенд