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Entrepreneurship is conventionally defined as the dynamo of economic growth and social development in country-wide and regional aspects. Meanwhile, the policies to stimulate entrepreneurship often do not reach the goal because of the oversight of entrepreneurs as policymakers not only in relation to each other but also to the government and pro-government businesses. That poses the problems about the political and discursive nature of entrepreneurship and necessitates the research of the basic set of meanings ascribed by the entrepreneurs to their occupations as a special object within entrepreneurial and regional studies. The paper is aimed at singling out phenomenological features of the entrepreneurs` perception of their walk of life from the perspective of regional development of the entrepreneurship as the political and discursive wholeness. Hence, the research is subject to social constructionist methodology rendered by the Foucauldian analysis of discursive formations. The results obtained are as follows. Firstly, the classical discourse of entrepreneurship is shown as justifying the existence of the entrepreneurs and indifferent to the entrepreneurs` life world. Secondly, the modern discourse, instead, is concerned with the entrepreneurs` attitudes to their role and is formed by the confluence of traditional opportunity-oriented issues with the values-based distinction between causal and effectual logics representing the antithetic comprehensions of the means-ends relations. Thirdly, the discursive formation of the entrepreneurship bounded by the specified discursive flows is comprised of the basic meanings of the entrepreneurship as the inherently valued phenomenon. The entrepreneurs are distinguished according to these meanings as entrepreneurial actors drove, respectively, by the values of profession, autonomy, emancipation, and power over the future.