О господстве идеи господства: «воля к власти» в современной социальной теории (Часть I)

Социологические исследования. 2023. № 4. С. 3–14.

Gofman A. B.

http://The basic statement of this article is that in contemporary sociological and, more generally, social theories the concept of power, and especially of such its variety as domination, play a key role. Moreover, there is a kind of seizure of the conceptual space of theoretical sociology by the concepts of power and domination. These latter concepts today claim to be the main explanatory principle of all social life. The author qualifies this theoretical position as a kind of "power determinism" and "power reductionism". This trend can be traced in general theory, as well as in different particular fields of sociology. The conceptual expansion of power and domination can also be seen in the fact that concepts close to them (such as "force", "violence", "oppression", "coercion", "hegemony", etc.), as well as antonyms of these terms (such as "subordination", "obedience", "subordination", "dependence", "resistance", "disagreement", etc.) are becoming increasingly important. Such categories occupy an important place in a number of the most popular social theories of our time (P. Bourdieu, E. Laclau and S. Mouffe, J.Agamben, J. Butler and many others). But it was Foucault who played the main role in substantiating the omnipotence and the ubiquitous presence of power in social life. He tried to implement Nietzsche's call to turn sociology into a doctrine of power. The author analyzes the nature and intellectual origins of these ideas.

Keywords: власть, социальная теория, Макс Вебер, Мишель Фуко, power, domination, Michel Foucault, господство, Friedrich Nietzsche, biosocial theory, Фридрих Ницше, conceptual expansion, Max Weber, концептуальная экспансия