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Although studying various subjects, Foucault soon gravitated towards philosophy, reading not only Hegel and Marx but also Immanuel Kant, Edmund Husserl and most significantly, Martin Heidegger. [33] He began reading the publications of philosopher Gaston Bachelard , taking a particular interest in his work exploring the history of science . [ 34 ]
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. It is preferred by scholars who criticize more traditional forms of discourse analysis as failing to account for the political ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Lives of Michel Foucault is a 1993 biography of French philosopher Michel ... Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ...
According to Foucault, Marx and Engels used or borrowed the term "race" and transversed the term race into a new term called "class struggle" which later Marxist accepted and began to use. This is more partly to do with Marx's antagonistic relationship with Carl Vogt [ 6 ] who for his time was a convinced polygenist which Marx and Engels had ...
Discourse is a major topic in social theory, with work spanning fields such as sociology, anthropology, continental philosophy, and discourse analysis. Following work by Michel Foucault , these fields view discourse as a system of thought, knowledge, or communication that constructs our world experience.
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.
The Archaeology of Knowledge (L’archéologie du savoir, 1969) by Michel Foucault is a treatise about the methodology and historiography of the systems of thought (epistemes) and of knowledge (discursive formations) which follow rules that operate beneath the consciousness of the subject individuals, and which define a conceptual system of possibility that determines the boundaries of ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Birth of Biopolitics is a part of a lecture series by French philosopher Michel Foucault at the Collège de France between ...