SUBJECT AND METHOD: IDEOLOGY, ONTOLOGY, ETHICS. (ALTHUSSER, BADIOU, FOUCAULT)

Abstract

In this paper I return and rework previous inquiries on the philosophical method, and explicit its link with the subject concept from a post-foundational perspective. The objective is to report the work in progress and the singular trajectory in which I have been deploying, among different authors, my own theoretical perspective on these intertwined topics. These elaborations respond not only to a theoretical or epistemic need, but to an ethical-political —ie, critical— concern about the present. I clearly subscribe to the practice of that critical ethos that Foucault rescues from the Enlightenment and which consists in linking epistemic inquiries to ethical and political considerations at the same time, which constitutes a critical ontology of the present. In this case, exceeding Foucault's own elaborations and linking them to other authors, such as Badiou and Althusser.