A Critical Exposition on Foucault’s Philosophy: Discourse and Power
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dagnachew Assefa (PhD.) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Semagn Amsal | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-12-25T19:44:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-12-25T19:44:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-04-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article exposes Foucault’s conceptions of power, resistance and freedom. Foucault argued that power, resistance and freedom could not be conceptualized one without others. According to him, power is not a substance or an abstract thing that has its own origins. It is merely the name of relations between individuals. In every power relations knowledge is produced, and in contrast knowledge is used for a proper exercises of power. He argued that discourse is vital for the intersection of power and knowledge. For him, freedom is a prerequisite for power relation. To decide a given relations are power relation; the subjects must be free to take counter action. So, resistance is inevitable in every power relation, and this resistance could never be exteriors in power relation. Therefore, power, resistance and freedom are intervened themes of Foucault’s genealogy works, meaning that for Foucault, power without resistance and freedom is impossible and the vice versa. But, unlike him, I argued that freedom is a positive results of continues resistance of unjust power relation. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3987 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
| dc.subject | power | |
| dc.subject | resistance | |
| dc.subject | freedom | |
| dc.subject | knowledge | |
| dc.subject | discourse | |
| dc.subject | archaeology | |
| dc.subject | genealogy | |
| dc.title | A Critical Exposition on Foucault’s Philosophy: Discourse and Power | |
| dc.type | Thesis |