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While Foucault has been connected with both the postmodernist and post-structuralist movements, he was in essence a social theorist and historian, not unlike Lawrence Stone, although Foucault worked more on the interplay of ideas, while Stone concentrated more upon the impact of social alterations on family, sexual relationships, and society at large.... In order to truly comprehend what it is that Foucault is saying about power and desire within repression, and (even harder) understand what he means by these terms, the reader must have some understanding of foucault's...
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In an attempt to illustrate some analogies regarding foucault's concept of discourse, Tony Davies (1997) compared his notions with other theorists.... 70)
This paper is about Judith Butler's response to foucault's theory of subjectivity.... Particularly our discussion will revolve around the premise of gender identity, which is Butler's own response to foucault's “body” as the main driver behind subjectivity.... Butler used foucault's notions extensively, either as a basis for her own notions or to criticize its weak assumptions....
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For this study, the researcher will focus on discussing foucault's technologies of self, power, and theory of knowledge.... As part of conducting a literature review, the first section will analyse and discuss about foucault's technologies of self.... The second section of the study will tackle foucault's point-of-view regarding knowledge whereas the third section will discuss about foucault's theories behind power.... In the process of discussing the movie, foucault's technologies of self, power, and the theory of knowledge will be used in analyzing the personal attitude and social behaviour of Donnie – the main characters of the movie...
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Michel foucault's… The theories of the French postmodernist provide a platform for the analysis of individuals who apply power as a tool for coercion.... This paper reflects and explains foucault's claim by focusing on managerial work and management power/roles.... It discusses foucault's body of work on power and discipline.... It supports foucault's approach withreference to published empirical examples....
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t applies to the everyday life of an individual and imposes a law of truth on him making him a subject.... In a power relationship, power involves actions executed based on another person's actions and reactions.... His theories addressed the issues of power, knowledge and the social relations among the people....
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In accordance with the ideas included in his work and the methods used for the description of the various aspects of the modern life Michel Foucault has been characterized as a 'postmodernist' and 'poststructuralist' having a significant impact on many fields of knowledge like 'literary criticism and theory, philosophy (especially the philosophy of science in the French-speaking world), history, psychoanalysis, the history of science (especially scientific medicine), and the sociology of knowledge' (Neohumanism, 2004, online article)....
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This paper "Freire's Banking Concept of Education through the Lens of foucault's Panopticism" focuses on a reading of Freire through the panopticon, taking off from the two questions at the end of foucault's piece relating to the way prisons have come to have resemblances to hospitals and schools.... Undertaking a closer reading and analysis of the two texts and interpreting both from the context of the other, the paper hopes to gain insights into the educational banking concept and its relationship with foucault's thoughts on the panopticon (Freire; Foucault)....
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foucault's study provides a helpful new appropriate structure for the examination of Gothic novels like Matthew G.... With order imposed on self-punishment by the Lateran Council of 1215, (an important meeting called by Pope Innocent III and attended by evangelists, bishops and abbots), Foucault asserts, the institution of confession became "one of the main rituals for the production of truth"; society became "a singularly confessing society" and "sex" became its "privileged theme"(The History of Sexuality, 1990, cited in Conger)....
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