Summary
Michel Foucault: Order of Discourse
The thought of the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926‒1984) is one of the most effective "anticorrosives" of the 20th century, applied to phenomena and problems that are believed to shine with unquestionable brilliance, that no rust is the principle or can begin them, such as the Enlightenment, humanism, reason, power, the subject, knowledge, democracy, freedom, or those for which there is little believes that it is not even necessary to thematize them. In the "Order of Discourse", an introductory lecture at the College de France (held on December 2, 1970), the author deals only with the seemingly "unproblematic" topic and the concept of discourse (speech), a concept he believes is crucial for understanding our social and political practices. We control and limit the discourses, but they also control and limit us.
The "order of discourse" is also a kind of introduction to the later cycles of lectures at the College de France that Foucault held until his untimely death.
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