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Foucault's analyses of power are simultaneously articulated at two levels, the empirical and the theoretical. The first level is constituted by a detailed examination of historically specific modes of power and how these modes emerged out of earlier forms. Hence, he identifies modern forms of power, such as the closely related modes he termed ...
- Richard A. Lynch
- 2014
Feb 5, 2013 · The section argues that Foucault's theorization and practice of resistance and liberty illustrate that, under contemporary conditions, resistance is the most viable way to practice freedom. Most of Foucault's work on ethical concern for the self focuses on the Classical Greek and Hellenistic eras, as Greek ethics turns power relations on the self.
- Jon Simons
- 2013
Aug 26, 2019 · Michel Foucault. Goodreads. Foucault was interested in power and social change. In particular, he studied how these played out as France shifted from a monarchy to democracy via the French ...
Feb 22, 2016 · Heller's (Citation 1996) reading of Foucault comes close to this conclusion, in spite of its strange reliance on neo-Marxist categories, but ultimately it fails to maintain Foucault's distinction between power and resistance, as distinct positions in a particular type of relation between actions, concluding that they are in fact identical and that the terminological distinction is merely an ...
- Mikkel Flohr
- 2016
power and resistance in Foucault’s work – Judith Butler as an example of the first type2, and Richard Rorty as an example of the second3 – leading these commentators to a terribly one sided vision of the later Foucault’s understanding of the intrinsic link between power and resistance. My task in this paper, then, is the following.
May 7, 2020 · According to Foucault, at the end of feudalism, a ‘crisis’ of pastoral power occurs through which the ‘pastoral of the soul’ is transformed into the ‘political government of men’ (Foucault, 2007: 227) and the question ‘how to guide oneself in the best way’ spreads to the entire realm of temporal life.
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Nov 3, 2022 · From the perspective of sociological theory, Foucault’s concepts of power, power-knowledge, and discipline are one-sided. While Foucault contends that there is no center of power, his account of power remains top-down or structural, missing the interactive and enabling aspects of power. A more balanced view would suggest that all exercises of ...
