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  2. Michel Foucault - Wikipedia

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    Instead, Foucault argues, the body has been and is continuously shaped by society and history—by work, diet, body ideals, exercise, medical interventions, etc. Foucault presents no "theory" of the body, but does write about it in Discipline and Punish as well as in The History of Sexuality. Foucault was critical of all purely biological ...

  3. Critical theory - Wikipedia

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    Critical theory is a social, ... Michel Foucault has been described as one such author. [70] Jean Baudrillard has also been described as a critical theorist to the ...

  4. Power-knowledge - Wikipedia

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    In critical theory, power-knowledge is a term introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault (French: le savoir-pouvoir).According to Foucault's understanding, power is based on knowledge and makes use of knowledge; on the other hand, power reproduces knowledge by shaping it in accordance with its anonymous intentions. [1]

  5. Foucauldian discourse analysis - Wikipedia

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    The approach was inspired by the work of both Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, and by critical theory. [4] Foucauldian discourse analysis, like much of critical theory, is often used in politically oriented studies.

  6. Biopolitics - Wikipedia

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    Biopolitics is a concept popularized by the French philosopher Michel Foucault in the mid-20th century. [1] At its core, biopolitics explores how governmental power operates through the management and regulation of a population's bodies and lives.

  7. Chomsky–Foucault debate - Wikipedia

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    [4] Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault assumed opposing viewpoints on the question. Chomsky argued human nature was real, and identified it with innate structures of the human mind, consistent with his theory of universal grammar. Foucault explained the same phenomena by reference to human social structures.

  8. Discontinuity (Postmodernism) - Wikipedia

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    In developing the theory of archaeology of knowledge, Foucault was trying to analyse the fundamental codes which a culture uses to construct the episteme or configuration of knowledge that determines the empirical orders and social practices of each particular historical era. He adopted discontinuity as a positive working tool.

  9. Critical management studies - Wikipedia

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    These new voices drew on the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and the work of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. Later Feminism, queer theory, post-colonial theory, anarchism, ecological philosophies, and radical democratic theory also had some influence.