Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Heredity, Dialectic, Frankfurt School
8 Mar 2013
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There is a reality but it"s not important because we can never access it. Foucault understands and accepts that he is trapped in discourse: this discourse limits what we can say (foucault included) We"re dominated by ideologies we"ve made up. Emancipation: must free ourselves from said ideologies to be free. Three reasons why the notion of ideology is problematic or difficult. First: when people claim to know the greater good or what"s best is to say that they have a general truth or reality which doesn"t really exist: the truth is contested. If something is contested then it is political. Second: ideology refers to something like a subject: he tried to push the problem of the subject, the subject is only an effect of power. Third: the economical angle: it implies that ideology is determined by economy, economy is just one form of power relations. A lot of his work is the charting of subjectivity and knowledge.
