BIOL 1080 Lecture 3: 11.16 Foucault

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1080
• Professor: Alison M Duncan

Document Summary

Michel foucault: two lectures on power: foucault notes that in the recent history of past twenty years there has been the efficacy of dispersed offensives . Here by offensives he means challenges to the theories and practices in domains of law, politics, psychiatry, moral theory, and so on. Return of knowledge that makes local critique possible: he also calls the return of knowledge the insurrection of subjugated knowledge, which has two features, it refers to historical content buried and masked in functional coherences or formal systematizations. Subjugated knowledge that were present in the functional and systemic corps but were masked by the critique that used tools of scholarship: subjugated knowledge also refers to a whole series of knowledges that according to. Foucault have been disqualified as non-conceptual knowledges, as inferior knowledge, knowledges that are below the required level of scientificity.