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> It punched down to a lower level of thought: the idea that our discourse and our notions of truth are themselves constituted and shaped by our society and cir
by baddox 12y ago
> It punched down to a lower level of thought: the idea that our discourse and our notions of truth are themselves constituted and shaped by our society and circumstances.
I know nothing about Foucault, but considering the praise he's getting on this thread, there must be a heck of a lot more to it than this, right?
- tatterdemalion 12y agoWell obviously you cannot sum up the work of any thinker in 1 sentence. But Foucault is actually more of an historian than a philosopher & he provides excellent histories of how many notions that we usually hold to be natural or inevitable are circumstantial and were constructed surprisingly recently, and how the construction of these notions corresponds to the activities of power in our society. Also probably some portion of his work has been itself naturalized and will seem less novel now that we all live in a world where many people have read Foucault.