Foucault Critical Analysis

Foucault discusses the whole idea of power stressing much on the positions of those people who hold power in any societal setting and how they relate with their subjects to try and ensure that the power is exercised effectively without abandoning or neglecting a section of the subjects being ruled. He also discusses the issue of sex and connects it to power giving details of how sex and politics interrelate. Foucault, in his discussion, gives a detailed analysis on the relationship between power and objectives that those holding power seek to achieve in the long run. He goes ahead to describe the tactics that those in power and generally politics need to employ in order to realize results in view of both the governors and the governed. In his

When discussed in the field of politics, the idea is that not only men have power to rule people but also women should be trusted and accorded the responsibility to rule people in good faith. This is one way of ensuring that equality prevails in politics and it gives people an assurance that whether someone is a man , woman or of young age, he/she can hold power and administer it in the most appropriate way without causing any tension. The tactical polyvalence of discourses is another principle that seeks to relate power and the aspect of knowledge. Foucault emphasizes that knowledge is a prerequisite to power and that inadequate knowledge is likely to make it hard for a person to exercise power effectively. He argues that discourse must be perceived to be a chain of segments which are discontinuous. The discontinuity of the segments is what finally appears to be the correct conception or perception of what power, knowledge and sex are. Double conditioning is another principle which seeks to give a clear understanding of the relationship between these three areas. The author’s argument is that the fact that the father is the head of the family does not necessarily imply that he can represent the state. He also argues that a family setting is not a true duplicate of the society because a society entails many different aspects which may not be present in the family. He is against making assumptions that a small part can be a representative of a