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Study On Foucault's Subject

Posted on:2011-09-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332473723Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Michel Foucault is the most important philosopher in France after the Warâ…¡and Sate.His ideological influence like the beautiful elf over the France and Europe, and throughout the Western world and the world. Foucault gives depth and breadth of thinking in a very deep impression. He is known as the "20th century French Nietzsche." Deleuze as his comrade said that his philosophy is "one of the greatest modern philosophy,"And Foucault's philosophy create a "Foucault era.""Subject" is a product of modern times, Descartes's philosophy marks the "subject" and the rise of modern "self" awareness. About the fate of the subject, since World Warâ…¡, French experienced a "highlight the theme of subjectivity," "suspected subjectivity", "away from the subject", and "return to the main body" of these four stages. Foucault's philosophy is different from the past philosophers, philosophers of the past are based on the theoretical basis of the human subject, but Foucault started from the cultural edge of madness, medicine, prisons and the history of archeology and pedigree to make the analysis of learning in areas neglected by traditional philosophy had profound philosophical reflection and critique. So, his philosophy is not just limited to philosophy, but to leak into the history, sociology, political science, psychiatry, medicine, psychology, literature, art, education and even construction and other areas.Foucault concerned the marginalized social groups and vulnerable groups. Analyze social crises on such a perspective.He used a special method to grasp the human subject. Critique of knowledge, power and truth,; personally "extreme experience".All of this are intended to help the socially marginalized and vulnerable groups.Also fustigated the theory and practice of traditional metaphysics. From the eyes of the rational world, Foucault's philosophy is tantamount to a kind of madness. In Foucault's eyes, the madness is the rational world.
Keywords/Search Tags:subject, power, knowledge, truth
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