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In Discipline and Punish, Foucault shows how power and the body are tied together, for example by the disciplinary power primarily focusing on individual bodies and their behavior. Foucault argues that power, by manipulating bodies/behavior, also manipulates people's minds.
- Michel Foucault Bibliography
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a prominent...
- Daniel Defert
Daniel Defert (10 September 1937 – 7 February 2023) was a...
- The Order of Things
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences...
- Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida (/ ˈ d ɛr ɪ d ə /; French: [ʒak dɛʁida];...
- Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French:...
- The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la...
- Michel Foucault Bibliography
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.
- Richard A. Lynch
- 2014
Apr 5, 2016 · Learn how Foucault analyzes power as immanent in all social relations and discourses, and how he challenges the juridico-discursive model of power. Explore his genealogical and archeological methods, his concept of power-knowledge, and his examples of sexuality, madness, and colonialism.
Apr 2, 2003 · In order to challenge the dominant view of the relationship between sexuality and repressive power, Foucault had to re-conceive the nature of power. His major claim is that power is not essentially repressive but productive.
Aug 26, 2019 · Learn how Michel Foucault analysed how power operates in modern societies through discipline, surveillance, and knowledge. Discover his key concepts, such as power/knowledge, panopticon, and sites of resistance.
Michel Foucault, the French postmodernist, has been hugely influential in shaping understandings of power, leading away from the analysis of actors who use power as an instrument of coercion, and even away from the discreet structures in which those actors operate, toward the idea that ‘power is everywhere’, diffused and embodied in ...
An overview of the political ideas and influences of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who developed a radical conception of social power and discourse. Learn about his early Marxism, his genealogical method, his concepts of biopower and governmentality, and his ethical stance.
