Paul Strathern

Foucault: Philosophy in an Hour

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  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    A particular episteme is bound to give rise to a particular form of knowledge. Foucault called the latter a discourse, by which he meant the accumulation of concepts, practices, statements, and beliefs that were produced by a particular episteme.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    The set of assumptions, prejudices, and mind-sets that structured and limited the thought of any particular age was referred to by Foucault as an episteme.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    When he talks of ‘archaeology’ he means the unearthing of the hidden structure of knowledge that pertains to a particular historical period.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    The emergence of any knowledge system is always linked with a shift in power.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    In all this process Foucault saw a mirror of authoritarian bourgeois society.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    Indicatively, Foucault noted, Descartes’s thoroughgoing doubt did not go so far as to question his own sanity.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    Descartes famously used reason to doubt everything, so that he could arrive at some bedrock of truth.
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    The wise fool was an ironic reflection of the folly of society.
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    Must we not hate ourselves if we are to love ourselves…. I am your labyrinth.
  • Marko P.has quoted4 years ago
    Wittgenstein had insisted there was no longer any such thing as philosophy – just philosophising. Most major philosophical questions were the result of linguistic errors. Untangle the mistake, and the question simply disappeared. And any remaining questions were simply unanswerable (or, more correctly, unaskable).
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