INTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF FREEDOM AND EMANCIPATION IN FOUCAULT'S PHILOSOPHY

Angela POPA Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

The concept of freedom is extremely discussed and controversial in social sciences and humanities. The new ways of interpretation as well as the social, political, economic, legal implications, fix our attention each time on the semantic extension of the concept. We further propose to present the interpretation of the concept of freedom in the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, whose interest is not in classical interpretations of freedom, but rather, in that form of freedom that aims at the order of facts and the functionality of the social body. Freedom is interpreted as an original force, always present and historically corresponding to the power strategies that cross the social corpus. The expression of human freedom can be guaranteed through the practical exercise of freedom. Keywords: freedom, emancipation, resistance, criticism, philosophical ethos.