DECONSTRUCTION AND POWER: MICHEL FOUCAULT and JACQUES DERRIDA. Lecture 6 of Postmodern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course]

Lecture Six: Do claims to knowledge and morality merely mask power? Foucault argues that sex rhetoric has “a tactical role to play in a transformation into discourse, a technology of power.” And Derrida asserts that “the revolution against reason can be made only within it.” Themes: Power as substrate. Structuralism and Post-structuralism. Dekonstruction. Postmodernism. Alexis […]