Intentionality and the “Being-in-the-Lanugage” of Michel Foucault

Abstract

We would like to present Michel Foucault's main thesis concerning his critique of the Husserlian notion of ``intentionality'' and --- linked with this --- the poststructuralist reformulation (proposed by Foucault) of the Heideggerian concept of ``Being-in-the-World'' (In-der-Welt-sein) into ``Being-in-the-Language.'' We describe the ways in which the World (Universum) for Foucault becomes the World of Language and how the consciousness as a place of constitution of objects is replaced by language.