Research Paper On Foucault
Foucault's works are based on a vision of history derived from Nietzsche. He expressed his indebtedness to Nietzsche for having outlined a conception of history called genealogy. The method of genealogy involves a painstaking rediscovery of struggles, an attack on the tyranny of what he calls ¡¦totalizing discourses¡¦ and a rediscovery of fragmented, subjugated, local and specific knowledge. It is directed against great truths and grand theories.¡]p.80¡^
(¡° vs. Lyotard's grand narrative/small narrative)
¡P Foucault rejects the Hegelian teleological model, in favour of Nietzschean tactic of critique through the presentation of difference. The gap between the past and the present underlines the principle of difference at the heart of Foucault's …show more content…
Foucault's Work in Different Stages: Reason and unreason :
Madness and Civilization
Foucault's early work is mainly concerned with the growth of those disciplines which are collectively known as the social or human sciences. As an answer to the question of how the human sciences are historically possible and what the consequences of their existence are. In his first book, Madness and Civilization, Foucault describes how madness comes in the 17th.c to be perceived as a social problem. The 'madship' was replaced by the 'madhouse'; instead of embarkation there was confinement.
Madness during the 19th c. began to be categorized as social failure. The asylum of the age of positivism was not a free realm of observation, diagnosis and therapeutics, it became a juridical space where one was accused, judged and condemned¡Xan instrument of moral uniformity. The birth of the asylum can be seen as an allegory in the constitution of subjectivity.
The Birth of the Clinic
Is subtitled ¡¥An Archaeology of Medical Perception¡¦; this perception of ;gaze; is formed by the new, untrammelled type of observation, condense a general historical argument into a tracing of the emergence of specific …show more content…
Every power relationship implies, at least in potentia, a strategy of struggle.
III. Foucault and Althusser
1.the similarities of Foucault and Althusser
Anti-humanist approach:
Foucault and Althusser regard humanism as an error; anti-humanists argue that unconditional emancipation is a fantasy, and that fantasy are dangerous.
Both emphasize the necessity of applying certain anti-humanist theories to the reading of texts
Both produced work that raises problems rather tan provides solutions.
2.the differences of Foucault and Althusser
Foucault is often depicted as some sort of freewheeling relativist in contrast to Althusser.
Foucault argues that the character of the knowledge of the human sciences is different from that of the natural sciences. But Althusser thinks that science produces its own objects and that is itself the product of social practices.
Foucault rejects the concept of ideology.
IV. Foucault's critique of
(¡° vs. Lyotard's grand narrative/small narrative)
¡P Foucault rejects the Hegelian teleological model, in favour of Nietzschean tactic of critique through the presentation of difference. The gap between the past and the present underlines the principle of difference at the heart of Foucault's …show more content…
Foucault's Work in Different Stages: Reason and unreason :
Madness and Civilization
Foucault's early work is mainly concerned with the growth of those disciplines which are collectively known as the social or human sciences. As an answer to the question of how the human sciences are historically possible and what the consequences of their existence are. In his first book, Madness and Civilization, Foucault describes how madness comes in the 17th.c to be perceived as a social problem. The 'madship' was replaced by the 'madhouse'; instead of embarkation there was confinement.
Madness during the 19th c. began to be categorized as social failure. The asylum of the age of positivism was not a free realm of observation, diagnosis and therapeutics, it became a juridical space where one was accused, judged and condemned¡Xan instrument of moral uniformity. The birth of the asylum can be seen as an allegory in the constitution of subjectivity.
The Birth of the Clinic
Is subtitled ¡¥An Archaeology of Medical Perception¡¦; this perception of ;gaze; is formed by the new, untrammelled type of observation, condense a general historical argument into a tracing of the emergence of specific …show more content…
Every power relationship implies, at least in potentia, a strategy of struggle.
III. Foucault and Althusser
1.the similarities of Foucault and Althusser
Anti-humanist approach:
Foucault and Althusser regard humanism as an error; anti-humanists argue that unconditional emancipation is a fantasy, and that fantasy are dangerous.
Both emphasize the necessity of applying certain anti-humanist theories to the reading of texts
Both produced work that raises problems rather tan provides solutions.
2.the differences of Foucault and Althusser
Foucault is often depicted as some sort of freewheeling relativist in contrast to Althusser.
Foucault argues that the character of the knowledge of the human sciences is different from that of the natural sciences. But Althusser thinks that science produces its own objects and that is itself the product of social practices.
Foucault rejects the concept of ideology.
IV. Foucault's critique of