Problematization (n.) is concerned with locating problems such that false problems prove especially harmful, for they require not only that we have to struggle against simple mistakes (false solutions), but rather, against something more profound: An illusion that carries us along, or in which we are immersed, inseparable from our condition.
Problematization (n.) is a resolutely philosophical exercise. This can be contrasted to the more analytic orientation to problems in Canguilhem as well as Foucault.
Problematization (n.) is grounded in the idea that the test of true and false is to be applied to problems themselves.
Problematization (n.) is the cultivation of problems such that philosophy can then go about the task of fabricating concepts. After all, one cannot simply go about creating concepts without a sense of what they are supposed to do. Concepts ought to be relevant, and what they ought to be relevant to are the problems we have shown ourselves to be facing.
Problematization (n.) is the model for the work of philosophy. Freedom lies not in solutions, but in a power to decide, to constitute problems themselves.
Problematization (n.) is the notion that the first value of philosophical thought resides in backing away from answers in order to formulate questions.
Problematization (n.) is the refusal to divide problems according to the soluble and the insoluble, and to recognize that insoluble problem might be precisely what philosophy should seek to create so as to provoke the work of difficult thought.