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It is important to situate the topic, to understand in what context it should be viewed in foucault's theory.... The paper "foucault's Philosophy" aims to understand foucault's 'Discipline' and explain it in the context of personal insight.... Michel Foucault is a modern-day philosopher whose best-known work is an incisive discussion on the evolution of the penal system in Western civilization....
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This paper ''Outline & Assess foucault's Critique of Modernity'' tells us that The ideas of modernity have been supported as an enlightened ideal with its support of democracy and social equalities between races, ethnic groupings, and genders.... This paper will now present foucault's critique of modernity.... It shall present foucault's ideas according to post-modernism and how it conflicts with the ideas of modernity.... foucault's critiques of modernity are based on the anti-Enlightenment principles which do not agree with the act of matching reason with emancipation and progress....
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Through foucault's theory of disciplinary power, the identity for normal and abnormal individuals seen in terms of ideal citizen or mad person has been according to him constructed through a broad discursive system of governmentality.... Foucault developed the theory of disciplinary power in which he describes the unique relationship between the process of madness and the process of being imprisoned.... The essay "Works of Michel Foucault Analysis" critically analyzes the process of the Panoptic and the implications of social monitoring, defining the notions of disciplinary power as in prisons and institutions, link the production of space with surveillance in foucault's works....
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His analysis of the mind in relation to power has been a subject of immense appeal to modern thinkers.... oucault's power-resistance relation is a dynamic analysis of the modern day world.... This evolution of his theory can be traced from 1960's to 1980's and reveal a pattern of study of how power influences decision-making.... foucault's wide range of influence ranging from history, to psychology, philosophy to politics and freedom is synthesis of his upbringing, education and very intense thinking....
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his paper is about Judith Butler's response to foucault's theory of subjectivity.... It was in this light where his theory of.... Particularly, in the book called, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, his concept of individuality underscore the theory of subjectivity which would, henceforth, affect the works of contemporary thinkers regarding issues not just on subjectivity Foucault rejected centuries-old assumptions concerning subjectivity....
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Foucault's social disciplinary theory primarily focuses on the course of actions that contribute to the internalization of the social rules and regulations within the body.... This paper will explore how Foucault's social disciplinary theory explains the body disciplines.... In fact, for Foucault, ‘body' has always been in the center of the attention of any forms of power or authority because body is easily accessible and manageable by controlling its various organic needs, as referring to foucault's obsession with the physicality of human being, Peter Erlandson says, “Foucault stresses that as well as studying the body as a seat of ‘needs and appetites' and other ‘biological events' in the social sciences, the politics of the body also needs to be studied” (662-3)....
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In addition, Panopticon of Bentham, critical theories, such as the labour process theory and critical realism theory have been examined.... A foucault's point of view enables one to understand the manner in which power is exercised in a specific organisation, the programmes, strategies and technologies that facilitate power relations, and to identify the beneficiaries and victims of such relations.... his work deals with foucault's theories of power, power relations and its Implications for modern organisations....
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The author examines the involvement of Foucault in the political life of the 20th century which can be characterized as of importance not only because this criticism referred to as many aspects as possible of people's lives but also because his criticism played a catalytic role to the reform .... ...
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