Essays Tagged: "Foucault"

"The Human in Captivity" A juxtaposition between the art within the Cloisters in New York City and the architecture of the Cloisters itself

ed what could be very roughly be called medieval space: the space of emplacement" (Of Other Spaces, Foucault 22).The Cloisters, a division of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Fort Tryon Park, poses ... d with the secluded monastery that the Cloisters museum imitates today. In the quote above, Michael Foucault comments briefly on the hierarchy of medieval space in his article Of Other Spaces. The med ...

(5 pages) 98 0 4.1 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

The concept of Parrhesia in Antigone, by Sophocles.

ue, their personal relationships with truth are essentially alike. The Greek concept of parrhesia, (Foucault 11) a word that is ordinarily translated into English as "free speech," embodies their beli ... word parrhesia appears in most Greek texts from the Fifth Century B.C.E. to the Fifth Century C.E. (Foucault 8)Although ostensibly very different, Creon and Antigone share many basic personality trait ...

(8 pages) 65 1 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Michel Foucault's claim that "Western man has become a confessing animal".

The History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault, is meant to be a critique of our social period, in particular, the belief that sex, especi ... n particular, the belief that sex, especially discourses about sex, have been 'repressed'. Instead, Foucault suggests that sex was never actually 'repressed', and that's just what the Repressive Hypot ... course, is associated inexplicably to power, knowledge, and pleasure.Scientia sexualis, is the term Foucault uses to describe the tendency of our culture to create discourse around the actual subject ...

(5 pages) 125 0 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Importance are media to the formation of youth as a social category.

outh will be examined using hip-hop as a primary illustration. This essay will be informed based on Foucault's post-modern theory of the death of the author.The distinction of youth as a significant s ... and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Wesleyan University Press, 1994, p. 16-20).According to Foucault, subject is the product of power through individualization of those subject to it. Power is ...

(8 pages) 204 1 2.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

If Foucault is correct about the multiple sites of resistance, what does this tell us about Hardt and Negri's political diagnosis in Empire?

oductionFirstly, two foundations for this study must be established: the nature and constitution of Foucault's multiple sites of resistance that we might, as clearly as possible, understand the lens t ... e that it be resisted and countered against the backdrop of our starting point: the assumption that Foucault is correct about the multiple points of resistance. Using this framework, we are able to ga ...

(14 pages) 57 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

This essay is about how the concept of the "social construction of reality" is incorrect because of women and elderly athlete participation.

eption of athlete promoted by the Senior Olympics can be used to change our dominant sport culture (Foucault).After watching television, flipping though magazine advertisements, and newspaper articles ... to it. The social construction of reality states that all ideas arise from human social existence (Foucault). This social existence of these advertisements, magazines and television are external soci ...

(5 pages) 94 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Michel Foucault's claims that the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale.

1) Michel Foucault's claims that the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the lar ... the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale.2) Foucault argues on the different uses of power. The first one being, that is the physical power and ... life and these turn out to be the rule which society is to live by.3) Power in society according to Foucault is to make people do things, not repress them. The first evidence of this power is within t ...

(2 pages) 117 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Discourse of Power. michael foucault: history of sexuality & crime and punishment

To Foucault, everything is about powerrelationships. Entwined with power is knowledge sothat in every p ... twined with power is knowledge sothat in every power relationship there is knowledgeand vice-versa. Foucault takes the cliché "Knowledgeis power" and revises it: the knowledge of humansintegrat ... istemes" anddiscourse.Epistemes are whole systems of relations or historicalgroupings of knowledge. Foucault looks for truth andknowledge in historical contexts rather than inHumanist or Structuralist ...

(5 pages) 260 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

New Historicist Criticism: Macbeth and Power

his idea of decentralized power, heavily indebted to post-structuralist philosophy (see Derrida and Foucault), is sometimes difficult to understand because it seems to have an intangible, mystical qua ...

(5 pages) 31 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

How is it known that the Earth rotates? Describe how precise measurements of this rotation, particularly those involving eclipses, have demonstrated that the Earth is gradually slowing down.

ould land to the west of the tower, in accordance with Aristotelian laws of motion.It was not until Foucault's pendulum experiment in 1851 that the incontrovertible proof of the rotation of the Earth ... d proportionate to thesine of its latitude (Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum)It is an illusion, of course, because it is not the pendulum's plane of oscillat ...

(8 pages) 65 0 4.2 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy

Michel Foucault

Foucault, Michel (1926-1984), French philosopher, who attempted to show that the basic ideas which p ... d the influence of German political philosopher Karl Marx and Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Foucault offered new concepts that challenged people's assumptions about prisons, the police, insura ... ghts, and welfare.He sees himself as a transdiscursive author: this term identifies an author (like Foucault) as not just the author of a book, but the author of a theory, tradition, or discipline.Fou ...

(3 pages) 178 1 4.2 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

New Historicism and Cultural Studies

idered text, with a tendency to seek out subjects not considered to be art traditionally. (1207)Foucault: history is neither real nor objective. Not real because we only see it through representa ... ence. (1214)New historicism is not a theory but a set of practices (1205)Derives from:1.Foucault's notion that "texts within a particular period are linked by a specific episteme.2.Gee ...

(1 pages) 42 0 4.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Neotextual narrative and the interpretation of Stonehenge

. It could be said that the characteristic theme of the works of Eco is not theory, but posttheory. Foucault uses the term 'modernism' to denote the role of the poet as reader. Therefore, the subject ... form. The example of constructivism depicted in Eco's The Island of the Day Before emerges again in Foucault's Pendulum."Class is intrinsically dead," says Baudrillard. In a sense, the characteris ...

(8 pages) 63 1 4.8 May/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Archaeology

How and why might the 'death of the author' be taken to mean the 'birth of the reader'?

ssue of language as a flawed medium which hangs over this authorial concern.In "What Is An Author", Foucault claims that the author has a function of a description, serving as a way of classifying tex ... fying texts; 'a name can group together a number of texts and thus differentiate them from others' (Foucault 235). This considers the author to repeatedly use a type of manner and discourse within the ...

(12 pages) 63 1 0.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Can people still rely on knowledge from experts?

of women, and inclusive by using specialized languages and procedures. I shall use the theories of Foucault and Popper in explaining the production and status of knowledge. Medical science and the en ... prescribe drugs, treatments, and issue certificates that entitle the patient to statutory sick pay.Foucault argues against the idea that knowledge is produced in institutions such as the Royal Societ ...

(6 pages) 116 0 5.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Comparative Essay: "Panopticism" vs. "1984"

Although Michel Foucault’s "Panopticism" has a different form of control in the society as portrayed in George ... stinct way over all individual bodies-this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city” (224, Foucault)Foucault’s quote describes the society in Oceania in Orwell’s 1984, where it desc ... e thought that the watchful telescreen would catch you in some act, which would lead to punishment. Foucault writes: “This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individ ...

(2 pages) 39 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Michel Foucault and the Cultiv

Michel Foucault: The Cultivation of the SelfMichel Foucault (1926-1984) spent much of the later part of his ... He defined such care as using one's own reason to ascertain who one is and how he can be his best. Foucault takes several perspectives on this theme, from medical to phenomenological, to develop his ... care of the self. Human's failure to attain and nurture this self results in the decay of this self.Foucault saw his writings on this and other concepts as part of a philosophy known as the art of liv ...

(7 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Michel foucault and the cultiv

Michel Foucault: The Cultivation of the SelfMichel Foucault (1926-1984) spent much of the later part of his ... He defined such care as using one's own reason to ascertain who one is and how he can be his best. Foucault takes several perspectives on this theme, from medical to phenomenological, to develop his ... care of the self. Human's failure to attain and nurture this self results in the decay of this self.Foucault saw his writings on this and other concepts as part of a philosophy known as the art of liv ...

(7 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Focault and the Confessional Self

The ideas of confession that Michel Foucault states in The History of Sexuality can be used as a lens in order to analyze confessional f ... , the futility of truth, and the glorification of the knowledgeable self are definite traits of the Foucaultian confession. These, by implementing the theory of confessional fiction that Brooks implem ... o creates the story and it is he the reader only relies upon. Thus, truth is maddeningly arbitrary. Foucault and Brooks both agree that it is futile to gain an affirmative defintion of truth in confes ...

(26 pages) 36 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Michel Foucault

Michel FoucaultMichel Foucault, generally in his philosophy, has created a system wherein heexamines the re ... d then thatindividuals are encouraged, as docile bodies, to adhere to this program of normalization.Foucault locates the origins of this process in asylums and prisons, and considers them anEnlightenm ... ness, purity, supernatural power. Let us call these kindsof technologies technologies of the self. (Foucault "Sexuality and Solitude 367)Foucault locates these technologies of the self at the center o ...

(7 pages) 46 0 3.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy