RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Episteme, The History Of Sexuality, Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critique of the sciences (social, biological etc. ) Think of them as historical, not objective scientific facts. 69: book of archaeological knowledge- method of historical analysis. Both interested in study of the past. A: system of thought/ knowledge, episteme governed by rules and knowledge because individual consciousness. G: everything (any system of thought) is based on history - present and past are not inevitable. Appreciation of other conditions that could have been. Development of nietzsche"s genealogical method, not original. According to f, power is not a thing, it is a relation. Manifested in its exercise and exists only in action. Ex. classroom, field of relationships between professor and students and between students. Truth understood as system of ordered procedure for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. Circular relation: (1) system of power product and sustain truth (2) truth extends power. In knowing, we control and in controlling, we know.
