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Full Idea
Unlike Marxists, Foucault's project is to offer an internal account of human thinking, without assuming a privileged status for the conscious content of that thought.
Gist of Idea
Unlike Marxists, Foucault explains thought internally, without deference to conscious ideas
Source
report of Michel Foucault (works [1978]) by Gary Gutting - Foucault: a very short introduction 4
Book Ref
Gutting,Gary: 'Foucault' [OUP 2005], p.35
A Reaction
His project is historical. Personally I resent anyone who claims to understand my thought better than I do. I suppose my intellectual duty is to read Foucault, and see (honestly) whether his project applies to me.
Related Idea
Idea 5277 Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life [Marx/Engels]
| 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] |