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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.
| 21945 | Foucault originally felt that liberating reason had become an instrument of domination [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21942 | Foucault challenges knowledge in psychology and sociology, not in the basic sciences [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21941 | Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21939 | The author function of any text is a plurality of selves [Foucault, by Gutting] |
| 21116 | Power is used to create identities and ways of life for other people [Foucault, by Shorten] |
| 21940 | Nature is not the basis of rights, but the willingness to risk death in asserting them [Foucault] |