PHIL 1000 : STUDY GUIDE PHILOSOPHY
Document Summary
Michel foucault (1926-1984: french philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, philologist, literary critic, addressed the relationship between power and knowledge and how they are used as a form social control through societal institutions, associated with post structuralism movement. How power works: power is key, present way power is expressed is that gender is performance and sex is what you were. Is productive, doesn"t have to be negative, allows things to happen born with. To keep plague from spreading: extended from the center. The prison: uses light and visibility, each cell is like a theatre, no subjectivity, you are data being observed at all times. Structuralism a group of thinkers/philosophers that focuses on what mceviley would call a modernist. Post-structuralism-something like power, structure is that there is no over arching structure, structures with more moving parts. Michel foucault- most cited philosopher professor in higher education: died of aids, summary, discipline and punish is a history of the modern penal system.
