"What, then, are the grounds that determine Foucault to shift the meaning of this specific will to knowledge and to truth that is constitutive for the modern form of knowledge in general, and for the human sciences in particular, by generalizing this will to knowing self-mastery into a will to power per se and to postulate that all discourses (by no means only the modern ones) can be shown to have the character of hidden power and derive from practices of power? It is this assumption that first marks the turning from an archeology of knowledge to a genealogical explanation of the provenance, rise, and fall of those discourse formations that fill the space of history, without gaps and without meaning."
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JĂŒrgen Habermas, The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (1985), IX. The Critique of Reason as an Unmasking of the Human Sciences: Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault
1926 â 1984
französischer Philosoph
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