One Foucault's major points is that an argument (or discourse) is itself an expression of power. — TheWillowOfDarkness
When we argue a case we do violence to other ideas, cordoned them off, make them unacceptable, believe they are meaningless and cause other to reject or denounce them within their own thoughts-- it's the ground of thought which sets-up the violence committed against particular people (e.g. the mentally ill, the criminal), to a point where it cannot even recognised as an act or violence and power), such as thinking the punishment of a criminal is just "inevitable" or that someone with a mental illness cannot make truthful (or "reasoned" ) comment or have honest motivation.
It's this awareness of power you are struggling with. Your problem is really not that Foucault somehow rejects truth. . . — TheWillowOfDarkness
The myth of The Truth no longer functions. We are cursed (blessed?) to recognise what our understanding, culture and actions do to others in the context of power. The blindness to the violence which accompanies our understanding of others and the world around us is lost. — TheWillowOfDarkness
it is fair to ask the critic to read them — Moliere
One does not have to explain away truth as a myth in order to understand and avoid bad effects of power, ignorance and so forth. — jkop
Roland Barthes, for example, quite literally argued against clarity in language and of having a natural prose style. — Thorongil
Hi, I don't think we debate whether absolute truth exists. If you look at the premise of the archaeological method, there is an assumed ground for thought beyond logic, grammar, and beneath consciousness. I question whether such a ground for thought exists. What conditions satisfies its possibility? — jkop
Manifest Density, — TheWillowOfDarkness
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