Questions tagged [foucault]
Paul-Michel Foucault is a French philosopher that studied ethics, epistomology, and social constructs.
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What is the "historicised a priori"?
While browsing this question I stumbled upon the concept of historicised a priori citing Dilthey and Foucalt.
Can somebody explain this concept to me?
Also, could anyone point me in the direction of ...
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When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others?
Just trying to relate my ladybird book of Foucault knowledge (though I've read him) to chat-gpt. When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others? When is an LLM that is more ...
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Does Descartes exclude madness from his meditations?
For Descartes, is madness fundamentally different to dreaming?
Reading these blog posts (I am unfamiliar with the discussion really), which has a few points against Foucault's analysis that it is ...
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Understanding Foucalt's reasoning when describing Palazzo's work
In Foucault's lecture series "Security, Territory and Population", in the lecture of 15 March 1978, Foucault traces what is understood by the concept of raison d'État, starting with Palazzo'...
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Foucault and 2 remarks he makes in Oct 1978 in a text about the Iranian uprising
In an article published in Le Nouvel Observateur in Oct 1978 (here 1), Foucault says two things I'm not sure I understand: first that during his journey in Iran everything he heard about the ...
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What is the relationship between technologies, and Foucault's and Agamben's apparatuses/dispositifs?
I'm trying to understand both the extension/inclusion of these sets towards each other, as well as the causal relationship between these two, and I'm trying to understand both what Foucault originally ...
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What is Anti-humanism?
I tried to do my own research on it but I'm not very much cleared about it. Please explain it to me in simple language. this term is being used by Post-structuralism and postmodernists.
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A Foucalt-ian analysis of Gandhi's Satyagraha?
So I've recently tried delving into Foucault's idea of resistance and power:
where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, or rather
consequently, this resistance is never in a position of ...
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What is the opposite of heterotopia?
Michel Foucault's essay on heterotopias mentions the other real sites - where social order is maintained - that are "represented, contested, and inverted" by heterotopias. What exactly are ...
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Does Critical Theories (CRT, Queer Studies etc.) come from the Frankfurt school or post-modernism?
I know post colonial studies which is a critical theory began with Orientalism which uses Foucault's concept of discourse. But also Frankfurt School is widely credited with finding critical theory ...
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What does postmodernism say about Human Nature?
Chomsky who is anti-postmodernism believes humans have a nature which makes them inherently creative which can be achieved in a free society. This is in opposition to Foucault who talks bout the ...
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Why is post-modernism so often equated to Relativism, are there any responses in postmodern philosophy that challenges this?
I am refering to critiques of postmodernism that are presented here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/postmodernism-didnt-cause-trump-it-explains-him/2018/08/30/0939f7c4-9b12-11e8-843b-...
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What does this mean about critical theory?
In the introduction of her recent book "Between Gaia and Ground", Elizabeth Povinelli says:
This book examines four axioms of existence that have emerged in
recent years across a ...
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How did the french postmodernists and Rorty arrive to the same conclusion using different methodology?
Rorty founded pragmatism -> which is basically that words only get their meanign based on how they're used
French postmodernists on the other hand did different things all attacking Grand ...
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What is the difference between Subaltern and any other oppressed group?
This is in the context of deconstructionist Marxist Gayatri Spivak's reply to Foucualt and Deleuze and defense of Marx in her famous work Can The Subaltern Speak ?
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