Politics
The point of engaging in political struggles-and Foucault thinks we are engaged in them all the time, hence his disdain for the question about the im portance of politics-is to alter power relations.
The_Foucault_Reader_1984.pdf
For Chomsky, we must struggle against the injustices of our current society in the name of a higher goal-justice. Surely, Chomsky argues, unless we have a guiding principle, we will have no way of judging the actions of others . It is perfectly possible that we may find ourselves in a situation in which a revolution turns out to be worse than the... See more
The_Foucault_Reader_1984.pdf
"It seems to me, " Foucault expounds, "that the real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the working of institutions which appear to be both neutral and independent; to criticize them in such a manner that the p olitical violence which has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight... See more
The_Foucault_Reader_1984.pdf
One of the hallmarks of Western political philosophy, in Foucault's interpretation, has been its devotion to such abstractions, first principles, and utopias-i . e., theory . In the West we have consistently approached the problem of political order by building models of the just social order or searching for general principles by which to evaluate... See more