The Continuity of Knowledge in the Philosophical Discourse of Postmodernism

Identificator

EDN: IMBLFT ; УДК: 1+7.038.6

Authors

Ivanenko Maxim Aleksandrovich, master's student of the Department of Logic, Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Oryol State University n. a. I. S. Turgenev. Russia, Oryol. E-mail: maksimivanenko02@yandex.ru; Ulyanov Alexey Mikhailovich, postgraduate student, assistant of the Department of Logic, Philosophy and Methodology of Science, Oryol State University n. a. I. S. Turgenev. Russia, Oryol. E-mail: lesh.ulyanov@yandex.ru

Journal

HERALD OF VYATKA STATE UNIVERSITY №4 (158), 2025

Section

PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCES

Pages

25-33

Abstract

The article is devoted to an analysis of the problem of the continuity of knowledge in the philosophical discourse of postmodernism; the significance of continuity for contemporary humanities scholarship is brought into focus. The methods employed in the work are the following: the hermeneutic method, deconstruction, and the method of comparative philosophical analysis. Emphasis is placed on the method of the "philosophical creation of concepts" articulated in the work "What Is Philosophy?" by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari. Two distinct but mutually complementary strategies for conceptualizing the continuity of knowledge in postmodernism are explicated. The first strategy focuses on the analysis of epistemological breaks and discontinuities (illustrated by M. Foucault's archaeological method and T. Kuhn's conception of the shift of scientific paradigms). In the course of analyzing the second strategy, through G. Agamben's criteria of contemporaneity and J. Kristeva's semiotics, continuity is interpreted as co-creation, for which figures of the past are introduced into current discourse on new foundations, becoming contemporary with the present historical moment. By means of the Deleuzian-Guattarian concepts of the concept, the conceptual persona, and the plane of immanence, postmodern non-linear continuity is construed as a dialogue between thinkers of various historical periods who address eternal philosophical problems in their works. G. Deleuze's reception of the understanding of philosophical problems in A. Bergson and A. Lautman is a characteristic example of the second type of continuity. It is concluded that postmodern discourse, despite its deconstruction of metanarratives and its attention to epistemological discontinuities, does not eliminate but preserves continuity, understood as a creative and non-linear process. The results of the study are of value for further research in the history of philosophy, ontology, and the theory of knowledge, and they also demonstrate the positive element of postmodernism as a project for the radical liberation of philosophical thought.

Keywords

conceptual persona paradigm postmodernism continuity of knowledge philosophical problem philosophical discourse episteme

Recieved

22.09.2025

Published

08.10.2026

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