Dekhtyar V. The problem of power in the French poststructuralism.

The aim of this dissertation is to provide the objective and complete characteristie of a problematic of power on the basis of writing of the Frenche poststructuralists (Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuxe, Roland Barthes) to point out that special place, which it takes in their works and to represent tnat role, which the theory of power has played, in the development of the French poststructuralism. The author displayas the conceptual system proposed in a poststructuralism studies for the analysis of power relations. Thus the dissertation presents the reconstruction of problematic of power in the French poststructuralist philisiphy as a specific project of the non-classical political theory. The application a poststructuralist methodology of research of power allows us to present the political analysis of these phenomena, which mostly werw excluded from sphere of political science, and the difinition of such implications as "power-body", "power-text","power-knowledge", "power-sexuality" enablies a new and profound interpretation of social and historical conditionality of cultural phenomena, which are usually teated as non-historical and totally extarnal to any kind of social processes. On the basis of the results received during this inguiry the author lines out the general methodological approaches to the conceptal analysis of a problematic of power in the writing of representatives of the French poststructeralism.