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	Michel Foucault
		Archaeology was an essential method for Foucault because it supported a historiography that did not rest on the primacy of the consciousness of individual subjects; it allowed the historian of thought to operate at an unconscious level that displaced the primacy of the subject found in both phenomenology and in traditional historiography.
		Foucault's point is rather than, at least for the study of human beings, the goals of power and the goals of knowledge cannot be separated: in knowing we control and in controlling we know.
		Foucault maintains that the great "turn" in modern philosophy occurs when, with Kant (though no doubt he is merely an example of something much broader and deeper), it becomes possible to raise the question of whether ideas do in fact represent their objects and, if so, how (in virtue of what) they do so.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/foucault (6177 words)

	Curriculum Vitae of Miguel B. Llora,and various other topics
		Foucault fails, however, to give a satisfactory explanation of why struggle, division, and passivity are inherent in emergence, which he calls entstehung based on Nietzsche's vocabulary in On the Genealogy of Morals.
		Foucault claims immunity from prosecution by programmatic rational discourse by labeling his histories "fictions." The narrowness of this inquiry compounds the difficulties raised by Foucault's avoidance of intellectual culpability.
		Foucault's entstehung is a recapitulation of the Fall from the Eden of cruelty.
	www.geocities.com /mllora3/fictions_of_emergence.htm (4726 words)

	Foucault and Feminism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Foucault's genealogy of modern power challenges the commonly held assumption that power is an essentially negative, repressive force that operates purely through the mechanisms of law, taboo and censorship.
		Foucault's notion that power is constitutive of that upon which it acts has enabled feminists to explore the often complicated ways in which women's experiences, self-understandings, comportment and capacities are constructed in and by the power relations which they are seeking to transform.
		Foucault argues that, since modern power operates in a capillary fashion throughout the social body, it is best grasped in its concrete and local effects and in the everyday practices which sustain and reproduce power relations.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/foucfem.htm (7340 words)

	Janus Head 3.2 / Mark D. Tschaepe - Foucault's Dream
		Foucault, upon placing his found information into a particular order (as the archaeologist does with his discovered objects of the past), unmasks that which is seemingly absolute as inherently contingent and oppressive, elusive and ever-changing, subjugating the subject as a specific type of subject while claiming to liberate the individual.
		Foucault discovers through his investigation of the social sciences as a branch of discourse stemming from the three sciences that the subject has become contained as the human being, a finite agent within the world of objects rather than an infinite soul defined by the mysterious infinitude of Spirit.
		Foucault, in the same fashion as Nietzsche, rejects the idea of a stable, constant subject.71 The subject, for Foucault, is not an entity with an essence, but an entity which is self-fashioning, constantly redefining itself in its contact with the world.
	www.janushead.org /3-2/tschaepe.cfm (5779 words)

	Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Articulating genealogy as a particular methodology is in itself a problematic venture, since Foucault's own project seeks to question that which "assure[s] the permanence and functioning of an institution" (Foucault 1984a, p.113).
		Genealogy is one of a number of practices to arise from French poststructuralism.
		Genealogy is an analytic frame that can propel researchers toward practices that call humanist assumptions of subjectivity, unity, history, and coherence into question, practices that interrogate the power relations inherent to any knowledge-producing endeavor.
	www.coe.uga.edu /quig/proceedings/Quig95_Proceedings/mccory.txt.html (4380 words)

	Excavating Foucauldian Identity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With this beginning, Foucault scores an emotional coup d'état, for most readers, repulsed by the graphic details of the torture, are already patting themselves on the back, counting their blessings that such spectacles have receded into the penumbra of a more enlightened, humane age.
		Foucault seems to propose that there is a measured proportionality between the "power" of death and the "power" of bio-power; as the latter increases, so does the former.
		Foucault claims that recognizing the ethical status assigned to these facilities is crucial, for it is here in the "space invented by a society which had derived an ethical transcendence from the law of work, that madness would appear and soon expand until [in the nineteenth century] it had annexed them" (57).
	www.nhumanities.org /roulier.htm (6990 words)

	"Nietzsche, Genealogy, History" Synopsis
		The body is the inscribed surface of events (traced by language and dissolved by ideas), the locus of a dissociated self (adopting the illusion of a substantial unity), and a volume in perpetual disintegration.
		Genealogy, as an analysis of descent, is thus situated within the articulation of the body and history.
		The role of genealogy is to record its history: the history of morals, ideals, and the metaphysical concepts, the history of the concept of liberty or of the ascetic life; as they stand for the emergence of different interpretations, they must be made to appear as events on the stage of historical process.
	www.brocku.ca /english/courses/4F70/geneal.html (1062 words)

	Foucauldian thoughts on Gerontological Methodology
		However, another example focusing on genealogy reveals the architectural organisation of residential care focuses on the spatial dimensions of such an institution and the organisation of such institutions are geared to care workers’ surveillance and monitoring of older people’s behaviour (Powell and Biggs, 2000).
		Foucault further points out that archaeology "describes discourses as practices specified in the element of the archive" (1972, 131), the archive is "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" (1972, 130).
		As Foucault (1982, 109) found in his exploration of psychiatric power: ‘Couldn’t the interweaving effects of power and knowledge be grasped with greater certainty in the case of a science as ‘dubious’ as psychiatry?’.
	sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx /meths.htm (3133 words)

	Eve L. Mullen: Postmodernism and Social Praxis
		Foucault's is a drastic suspicion, a total and continuous skepticism which repeatedly serves as an alarm to the genealogist.
		Foucault is aware of the danger of falling into the trap of the repressive hypothesis.
		Again relying on Foucault's work, she assumes that the genealogical method is the tool by which to gain a complete picture of history and all living in it.
	www.temple.edu /gradmag/spring98/mullen.htm (3976 words)

	Foucauldian Gerontology: A Methodology for Understanding Aging
		Foucault uses these methodological “tools” to disrupt history at the same time as giving history a power/knowledge re-configuration that makes his approach so distinctive and relevant to social gerontology and research methodology.
		A Key difference between Goffman and Foucault’s interpretations of institutions would be, however, that whereas Goffman sees total institutions as an aberration, untypical of society as a whole, Foucault’s critique assumes that the carceral element of institutional life encapsulates a core feature of social life.
		As Foucault (1980, 109) found in his exploration of psychiatric power: “Couldn’t the interweaving effects of power and knowledge be grasped with greater certainty in the case of a science as “dubious” as psychiatry?”.
	www.sociology.org /content/vol7.2/03_powell_biggs.ixml (4210 words)

	History, Memory amd Memorials
		Regarding his movement toward genealogy, Foucault states, "The search for descent is not the erecting of foundations: on the contrary, it disturbs what was previously considered immobile; it fragments what was thought unified; it shows the heterogeneity of what was imagined consistent with itself" (147).
		He argues that genealogy's task is "to expose a body totally imprinted by history and the process of history's destruction of the body" (148).
		Having argued that genealogy is the proper methodology for examining history and noting that history inscribes itself on the body (or in our case, on the mind), Foucault turns to an examination of the role of historians.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~bherek/holo/hmm.html (2353 words)

	Critical Thinkers :: Michel Foucault Resources
		An anthology of essays by respected interpreters of Foucault, it bridges the span between A Foucault Primer and tackling the works of Foucault himself.
		Rouse demonstrates how Foucault conceived of power not as an entity ontologically exogenous to social relations but rather as a dynamic process which is conceived and executed in a multiplicity of social locations.
		However, Foucault is primarily a philosopher of history and Milgram is, instead, an empirical sociologist.
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/foucault.htm (1815 words)

	Foucauldian Reflections: December 2004
		Foucault does not have an articulated conception of difference between capital and capitalism and that a regime could be dedicated to capital without being a capitalist system.
		Foucault recognises the distinctive and unique character of the modern west and he is tied to its origin in the sense that he recognises the moment when ‘the west first asserted the autonomy and sovereignty of its own rationality” (Introduction to, The Normal and the Pathological p.
		Foucault’s attitude towards the gay movement and calls for his ‘coming out’ and confession and his ambivalent attitude towards the gay discourse is based on the reasons we have been discussing here.
	foucauldians.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_foucauldians_archive.html (8262 words)

	Amazon.fr : Starting With Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy: Livres en anglais (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Michel Foucault had a great influence upon a wide range of disciplines, and his work has been widely interpreted and is frequently referred to, but it is often difficult for beginners to find their way into the complexities of his thought.
		In this clear and greatly revised second-edition introduction to Foucault's thought, Prado focuses on Foucault's "middle" or genealogical work, particularly Discipline and Punish and Volume One of The History of Sexuality in which Foucault most clearly comes to grips with the historicization of truth and knowledge and the formation of subjectivity.
		His consideration of Foucault's five forms of truth is particularly masterful and his preference for the genealogical studies rather than the archaeological books is inspired.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/ASIN/0813317908 (723 words)

	A Genealogy of Foucault
		Lecture appended in translation to AOK as "The Discourse on Language," trans.
		Richard McDougall as Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Disclosed Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century French Hermaphrodite (NY: Pantheon, 1980).
		Afterword: On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress, in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, eds., Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (Chicago: U Chicago, 1982).
	www.csun.edu /~hfspc002/foucault2.html (385 words)

	Political Genealogy after Foucault: Savage Identities - Michael Clifford - Mobipocket eBook
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