eroticism towards another person? Your answer to these questions is relative to your society’s culture at a particular point in time according to Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir. Foucault’s The History of Sexuality and de Behavior’s The Second Sex both agree that a superior manipulates a subordinate to suit his desires. However‚ while Foucault examines that those with political power manipulate people’s views of sexuality through the discourse about sex‚ Beauvoir argues that men manipulate women
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Pedro Renteria Critical Thinking Prof. Andy May 5‚ 2013 Chomsky and Foucault Debate Analysis Paper Chomsky-Foucault debate on human nature brought together arguably the two most prominent Western intellectual-activists of the day in a debate that shows clearly the train of thought prominent where each writer was situated. The discussion was in two parts‚ the first an analysis of where and how knowledge was created‚ with particular focus for the natural sciences‚ the second explicitly focused
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Arrigo and Bernard’s (1997) article identifies six theoretical statements that compare conflict theory to radical and postmodern criminology. These six concerns include; the focus of the theory‚ the goal of conflict‚ control of crime definitions‚ nature of crime‚ explanation of crime‚ and policy implications. Arrigo and Bernard’s (1997) theory suggests that postmodern criminology is consistent with conflict criminology’s definition of crime‚ while radical criminology is consistent with conflict criminology
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Deployment of Sexuality What does Michele Foucault mean by deployment of sexuality? Part four of the book on History of Sexuality speaks of the deployment of sexuality (HS 75ff). It is said here that deployment of sexuality is a disciplinary apparatus which concerns power. Many regard this work as a straightforward extension of the genealogical approach of Discipline and Punish to the topic of sexuality. This opus is a multi-volume work on various themes in a study of modern sexuality. His idea
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Feminist theorists Camille Paglia and Foucault give opposing views on the topic of women and their sexuality as they addressed topics such as homosexuality and pornography as ways of expressing sexual desires and the role a woman plays in society in reference to her sexuality. Camille Paglia‚ a graduate of the University of Arts in Philadelphia‚ America‚ has strong feminist views in relation to women’s sexual preferences. Paglia is a bi-sexual female‚ who came from an Italian‚ Catholic household
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Brad Wartman Professor John McGlothlin Eng-W 131 22 October 2011 Microtheme 4 The panoptic schema makes any apparatus of power more intense… It is a way of obtaining from power (Foucault 161). Foucault states that the Panopticon is set up in a way that a prisoner is forced to be self-discipline. The Panopticon is a building set up like a tower in the center with windows. “The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad…one is totally seen‚ without being ever seen; in
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Capital & Class 9 ó means‚ first‚ that the author overemphasises politics and political agency in the determination of European integration‚ failing to anchor this analysis in a broader appreciation of economic and political structures and the dynamics of international capital accumulation as well as in more deeprooted political processes. Consequently‚ there is a tendency to over-identify core structural processes such as globalisation and European integration itself‚ with specific political
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Michel Foucault‚ author of Madness and Civilization‚ devotes an entire chapter to discussing this theory‚ he asserts that: “The distractions of our mind is the result of our blind surrender to our desires‚ our incapacity to control or to moderate our passions.”
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than an emerging paradigm. The article gives insight into the discourse analytic research in selected countries‚ discusses the internationalisation of FOUCAULTian discourse analysis and highlights current trends and perspectives. Key words: Michel Foucault‚ Foucaultian discourse analysis‚ discourse analysis‚ field‚ paradigm Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. The FOUCAULTian Conception of Discourse and FOUCAULTian Discourse Analysis 3. Structures and Positions in the Field of FOUCAULTian Discourse
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Political Theory Final Paper Foucault vs. Hobbes‚ and Machiavelli Power by definition is the possession of control or command over others; authority; ascendancy. The question is now not what power is but how do the means of which power is exerted form and who or whom enforces these means. There are several ways to answer this question‚ none of which are entirely correct. By looking at the theories provided by Michel Foucault and comparing them to Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes we will gain
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