Michel Foucault

architecture as a function of the aims and techniques of the government of societies”(Michel Foucault,296). It is a narration of architectural idea that was affected by liberalism in the eighteenth century. When I compare the Michel Foucault “Space, Knowledge, and Power” and Mark Wigley “Deconstructive Architecture,”they indicate some differences for philosophy concept and architectural idea. The Michel Foucault refers to liberalism as the branch of philosophy, which was a great discovery of…

Milgram Experiment - Examining the Role of Authority in the Social Contract Using Foucault as a Basis Authority serves as the adhesive which binds all members of society to their roles within the social contract. Michel Foucault explains how authority in the modern disciplinary society could be better enforced by establishing proper hierarchies and creating confinements and labels for the undesirables in society (Foucault, D&P p. 224 & M&C p. 37-38, 1975 & 1988). In the Milgram experiment, the…

2.3. Michel Foucault’s Theories Michel Foucault was a French critical thinker. He has had strong influence on philosophy, critical theory and a wide range of humanistic and social scientific disciplines. He was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Foucault played a major role in events and in the focus of theoretical work of that time. He focused on particular subjects because that subjects come from his personal experiences. Whenever I have tried to carry out a piece…

The French philosopher Michel Foucault studied not language, but discourse as a system of representation. Normally the term 'discourse' is used as a linguistic concept. The term Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) is associated with the work of researchers such as Ian Parker, Erica Burman and Wendy Hallway. The term is widely known as Foucauldian discourse analysis or the analysis of discourse because it is related with Foucault’s writings. It has come from many theoretical sources. FDA can be…

The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige and Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Culture is an ambiguous term that sociologists have attributed multiple definitions to. For the purpose of this essay, I will follow T.S. Eliot’s definition of all of the characteristic activities and interests of a group of people (Eliot, 1948). In this essay, I will compare how Dick Hebdige in Subculture: The Meaning of Style and Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish study culture in the form of the British…

In this essay I will focus on Foucault and his philosophies. Being that I was not quite clear with the final paper question regarding Foucault and what he proposes for treating one’s identity. I decided it would probably serve me better if I did a little research on Mr. Foucault himself, I figured if I find out what type of person he was in his personal and private life, I would be better able to comprehend the final question. To begin with, Paul-Michel Foucault was born in 1926, in western…

basics of our knowledge about the world. The sociology of knowledge can also be found in Michel Foucault’s works. In his writings - Madness and Civilization (1961) posits that origin of madness and what was considered as "reason" or "knowledge" was a subject to major culture bias. In Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, Foucault focuses on the relationship between knowledge and power. According to Foucault, knowledge…

Introduction There are different views about the objectivity and subjectivity in history. It has been remained one of the major and important concept in history or historical research and there is always being a conflict among the philosophers and the historians since before few decades. Such type of discussion and variance of opinions lead to the division between the traditional historians and the post-modernist historians. Both subjectivity and objectivity are the two component of history or…

disorder, a moving chaos, and the seed of death of all things, which opposes the mind’s luminous and adult stability” (qtd. in Foucault,…

also conduct the understandings within the workings on Marxism theories and Michael Foucault. With their theories behind their own meanings and understandings on Feminism Social Theory. However, with comparison to the workings of famous Feminist sociologist, Simone de Beauvior, being well known feminist theorist and being engaged within feminist politics. A lot of the workings and theories of Marxism and Foucault will be proven unethical from various sources providing the evidence and from…