On Foucault

by Alison Leigh Brown

In a summation of the writings seen as Foucaults expressions in response to a social and civilized man. Foucault seizes the educators of antiquity to lay hold of the principle that knowledge is power, as truth is a power. This Power is viewed in light of discourse in the sense that participating in the dialogoues of linguistics and the socialization of self discilpline and moral theories one encounters the sense of self, that determinesthe the productivity of it's own initiatives. Foucault elaborates on theories of Marx and Freud, in support of Marxist theory sying that by restoring our commerce to the hands of productivity makes it possible to have our own relationship to revolutions, that are inter-personal, based on freedom, and not subject to correction by a privelaged class. It is in this vein That the author infers that Foucault is stating that moral behavior in terms of what is right and wrong is open to speculation. He is cautious about freudian theory as an exclusion of the di