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History as an Antidote to the Myth of Conformity: Foucault`s Theories of History and Disruption |
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This paper explores how certain epistemic constraints have affected Foucault's genealogy as a critical tool for politics. Specifically, his analysis contributes to our era's focus on the subject and its fear of mass conformity. These underlying ideas obscured Foucault's more important and clear sighted contributions to political theory. |
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| Hargis, Jill. "History as an Antidote to the Myth of Conformity: Foucault`s Theories of History and Disruption" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 27, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63542_index.html> |
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| Hargis, J. , 2003-08-27 "History as an Antidote to the Myth of Conformity: Foucault`s Theories of History and Disruption" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p63542_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper explores how certain epistemic constraints have affected Foucault's genealogy as a critical tool for politics. Specifically, his analysis contributes to our era's focus on the subject and its fear of mass conformity. These underlying ideas obscured Foucault's more important and clear sighted contributions to political theory. |
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| History as an Antidote to the Myth of Conformity: Foucault’s Theory of History This paper is one component of a project that looks at theories of the subject in modern Western philosophy and how certain constructions of the subject have repeatedly contributed to a divide between concrete and specific theories of the self in opposition to vague and indeterminate notions of the masses. I use the term “the masses” here to indicate a collection of ideas including the Other |
| Care of the Self 64. 40 see its potential clearly however the rather fearsome sense of mass conformity that has arisen from Foucault’s analysis of power and knowledge needs to be demystified. Instead of the masses versus the inspired or isolated individual postmodern political theory should attempt to see the potential in inter-subjective learning and consciousness. Inter-subjectivity is not necessarily only conformity and loss of self and if we agree with Foucault about the limitations of knowledge it is |
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