According to science, the evolution of the universe and human civilisation is the result of a clash of forces. Therefore, in each phase of human civilisation, discourse of power has been playing a ...

Experts have taken over our lives. They rule us not so much through law as through constant, pervasive coercion, exercised through institutions outside the state. Setting themselves up as secular ...

Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher, writer and historian. He wrote about and discussed many topics, and often his ideas caused controversy. Foucault’s speeches and writings helped ...

According to Foucault, there are two basic types of power. One is the traditional way, which is classed as repressive power, but the second is the subtler concept of power he called the normalising of ...

“Power is everywhere not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.”— Michel Foucault POWER, being a complex concept, can be defined in different ways. Most of the time ...

In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the country. According to a ...

Michel Foucault, left, and pianist Michael Stoneman in Death Valley in June 1975, from the book "The Last Man Takes LSD." (David Wade) In 1978 and 1979, the French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a ...

Our response is to embrace the political posture suggested by Michel Foucault’s interpretation of parrhesia. Foucault’s quest for parrhesia proposes an original strategy to break the spiral of ...

Readers of Michel Foucault will know that when he turned to Greek and (especially) Roman antiquity in his genealogical investigation of human sexuality, he found there admirable personal ethical ...