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TRUTH, POWER AND THE SELF

The Critical Philosophy of Michel Foucault

byZachary Fouchard

An honours thesis submitted in partialfulfillment of the requirements for thedegree of

Bachelor in EthicsSaint Paul UniversityApril 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents.............................................................................................2Introduction......................................................................................................3Truth.................................................................................................................7Archaeology and the Order of Things..........................................................7Historical Systems of Thought and Regimes of Truth...............................13Man and the Human Sciences....................................................................18Power.............................................................................................................26Genealogy and the Subjugation of Knowledge.........................................26Power, Knowledge, and the Sciences of the Individual.............................32The Question of the Human Subject..........................................................38Bibliography..................................................................................................452

INTRODUCTIONIt was during the 1970s that the influence of philosopher/historian Michel Foucault, accomplished Frenchintellectual, was felt, in a large way, outside of Europe. In1970, the same year he was awarded a professorship at the

Collège de France

under the infamous title “history of systemsof thought,” Foucault took a step into the English speakingworld with key lectures and interviews conducted at variousAmerican institutions, including the University of Buffalo andthe University of California, Berkley. By the 1980s, Foucault’sreputation as a major academic figure had broken out in theUnited States – with English translations of

Discipline andPunish

and the first volume of

The History of Sexuality

, as wellas reissues of the famous

Order of Things

– and by this time, aparticularly interesting interview was held during a seminar atthe University of Vermont,

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where Foucault introduced himself anew to a North American audience with a clear statement of his intentions as an intellectual:I came to try to explain more precisely…what kindof work I am doing… I am not a writer, aphilosopher, a great figure of intellectual life… Idon’t feel that it is necessary to know exactlywhat I am. The main interest in my life and workis to become someone else that you were not inthe beginning (Foucault 1988, 9).

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Michel Foucault, “Truth, Power, Self: An Interview with Michel Foucault, October25, 1982,” in

Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault

, ed. L.H.Martin, H. Gutman and P.H. Hutton (Amherst, MA: University of MassachusettsPress, 1988).

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