Michel Foucault · Philosophy
Foucault’s central insight: power and knowledge are not opposites but partners. Every body of knowledge about human beings - medicine, psychiatry, criminology - both grows out of and feeds back into systems of power. He coined the hyphenated term <em>power-knowledge</em> to mark that they cannot be pulled apart.
You learned that for Foucault, power and knowledge are inseparable: there is no power-knowledge without the other. Power is not merely repressive (saying no) but productive - it produces knowledge, subjects, and truths. Explain why he rejected the idea that knowledge flourishes only where power lets go.
Leads to Francis Bacon.
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