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- Discourse is not simply a neutral medium for expressing thoughts or exchanging information. Instead, it plays a crucial role in the distribution of power in society. Certain discourses become dominant, shaping our understanding of what is “normal” or “natural” and thereby influencing the decisions individuals and institutions make.
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Apr 26, 2024 · How does Foucault’s concept of discourse relate to power and knowledge? Foucault famously linked power and knowledge, suggesting that knowledge is not just used to exert power but is itself a form of power. In his view, discourses shape what is considered truth in a society, thereby influencing norms and behaviors.
- 5.1 Foucault and the nature of power
- A. Levin, The Cost of Free Speech Abigail Levin 2010
- 5.3 Power, the state, and the law
- 5.4 The silencing and subordination arguments, revisited
- 5.5 Conclusion
Michel Foucault’s insights into the nature and mechanisms of power have been among the most persuasive and influential of the last century, though his account has been almost universally overlooked in debates about liberalism. Foucault’s exclusion from the discourse may be owed partly to the fact of his own hostility toward liberalism, and partly t...
contention that the body of jurisprudence itself, combined with the acad-emic body of work surrounding it, is a discourse in the Foucauldian sense, and as such an important site of power. Even further, the discourse surrounding freedom of expression in particular operates at a meta-level, on a Foucauldian reading, since it governs the scope and lim...
As I have noted, the idea of power as delocalized, and running through-out the entire social body, is contrary to commonsense understandings of the notion of power, which would locate it paradigmatically in the state. Foucault, famously, resists this idea (1984a: 63): ‘What we need...is a political philosophy that isn’t erected around the problem o...
Having examined Foucault’s notion of power as diffuse and operative through discourse, it is time to bring these insights to bear on the silencing and subordination arguments, as well as on the charges of culturally oppressive speech that the arguments have brought to light. Analysis of Foucault’s ouvre has at least these important implications for...
This chapter has aimed to make three points about Foucault that demon-strate how his theory about the nature of power is relevant to the dis-cussion of whether and how the liberal state should actively work to end cultural oppression in order to treat its citizens with equal concern and respect. First, Foucault’s notion of power as operative throug...
- Abigail Levin
- 2010
Michel Foucault’s insights into the nature and mechanisms of power have been among the most persuasive and influential of the last century, though his account has been almost universally overlooked in debates about liberalism.
- Abigail Levin
- 2010
Aug 15, 2024 · Foucault’s ideas have had a profound impact on discourse analysis, particularly in the following ways: 1. Focus on Power Relations. Foucault’s work shifted the focus of discourse analysis from the content of language to the power relations that underpin and shape discourses.
Jul 3, 2023 · Power/knowledge establishes the framework for any given discourse, which means “everything that is said” within a field of knowledge (Foucault, 1980). Power/knowledge produces possibilities in the form of distinctions, definitions, and categorizations.
- Gerd Christensen
Foucault on Discourse and Power Seumas Miller Introduction In this paper I wish to focus attention on the notion of discourse and on a cluster of other notions which have become closely associated with it; in particular, the notions of knowledge and power. The concept of discourse has been imported into literary
Apr 5, 2016 · According to Foucault, power-knowledge discourse does not mean “knowledge is power.” It is a relationship that shows how certain knowledge is suppressed and other knowledge is produced through power. Power produces knowledge as well as suppressed knowledge.
