POL SCI 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Methamphetamine, Essentialism, Michel Foucault
15 Mar 2017
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03/14/2017 (1) social construction to governing apart from the state (2) michel foucault 1927-84 (a) critique of existing models of power (3) power, knowledge and repression (4) 5 methodological cautions. Think about social construction of the subject. F: power constitutes us at the level of reasoning and desires; not only restrains, but makes us on many levels. Also in terms of how we interpret and construct the world. Power governing us, not only on state level, but also own behavior ( conduct our conduct ) Mf draws on nietzsche for his political theory. 1st to try to make this issue a central problem of freedom. Problem of freedom found in powers that constitute our lives that we can never escape, but that we can remake. Why focus on this? (1) we (western thought) often think of power as applied or escaped from (outside of us) (2) treat knowledge and power as separate.
