title: “What is Not to be Done”: Intellectual Politics and Ancient Tradition
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metadata.value: Gutorov, Vladimir A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T13:00:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T13:00:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Gutorov V. A. “What is Not to be Done”: Intellectual Politics and Ancient Tradition. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2020, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 139–159.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17876
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article presents a critical study of the attempts of modern scholars to analyze the theoretical
  and historical aspects of the role that intellectuals play both in modern politics and in the political
  processes of more distant eras, including classical antiquity. The author demonstrates, as a casestudy,
  criticism of the theoretical position of the St. Petersburg philosopher A. V. Dyakov, trying to
  interpret the evolution of the political philosophy of Plato and his aspirations to implement his project
  of an ideal state through the prism of Michel Foucault’s theory of governmentality and a very
  original interpretation by the French philosopher of the Greek tradition of parrhesia (freedom of
  speech). Attracting a large array of the latest foreign scientific literature on the problems of modern
  and ancient politics and the participation of intellectuals in it, the author clearly demonstrates
  that the A. V. Dyakov’s refusal from investigation of the latest international analytics of intellectual
  policy deprives his concept of heuristic significance. Referring to authoritative scientific literature,
  devoted to the analysis of the interpretation of ancient politics in the philosophy of M. Foucault
  (for example, the work of T. B. Dyrberg and others), the author proves the inconsistency of Dyakov’s
  analysis of Platonic political philosophy, in particular, the Seventh Platonic Letter. The article
  consistently refutes the false thesis that, in M. Foucault’s works, parrhesia and the figure itself of
  parrhesisastes are interpreted solely in terms of extreme “life risks” to which intellectuals must
  necessarily expose themselves in order to confirm their right to follow the politics of truth-telling
  in all cases.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the
  Expert Institute of Social Research, project No. 19-011-31066 “Symbolic politics in modern Russia:
  global risks, civil identity and vectors of historical memory”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intellectuals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: epistemology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: discursive analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ancient tradition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: governmentality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: parrhesia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “What is Not to be Done”: Intellectual Politics and Ancient Tradition
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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