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Full Idea
For Foucault power is less about repressing people or issuing commands, and more about producing identities and ways of living.
Gist of Idea
Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people
Source
report of Michel Foucault (works [1978]) by Andrew Shorten - Contemporary Political Theory 01
Book Ref
Shorten,Andrew: 'Contemporary Political Theory' [Palgrave 2016], p.9
A Reaction
I take this to be the culmination of the Hegelian view of a person, as largely created by social circumstances rather than by biology. I'm beginning to think that Foucault may be a very important philosopher - although elusive.
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