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- Title
Foucault, Discourse, Knowledge, Culture and Archeology.
- Authors
Gaurav, Prashant Kumar
- Abstract
The paper will mainly focus on Foucault's discussion on his notion of 'discourse' and his dynamic conceptualization of knowledge, which has such an enormous influence in cultural analysis. He refutes the 'fons et origo' of discourse and calls for treating it as and when it occurs. He says that forms of continuity and unity are just the result of a construction following the rules with its own justification. He suggests that there is no 'human essence' but what a given society understands human beings to be at any given point is a product of the kind of discourses that it produces about itself. This can be seen as an anti-essentialist claim. This notion of man is also not in the line with humanism. It marks a break with humanism inasmuch as it de-centres the individual as the prior agent in creating the social world, rejecting subjectivity as something essential, and prior to discourse, which power acts against. What will be further discussed is his dynamic conceptualization of knowledge and his attention to thresholds of knowledge.
- Subjects
FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; HUMANISM; SUBJECTIVITY; SOCIAL constructionism; SOCIAL influence; ESSENTIALISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p154
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article