The Problem Of Freedom In The Works Of Michel Foucault
The Problem Of Freedom In The Works Of Michel Foucault

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with Michel Foucault’s vision of freedom that is shaped by his alternative understanding of power and resistance. Foucault repudiates the modern idea of liberation through truth about the real nature: there is no liberating truth about the “real” situation, essence and good. Truth is not free from power relations, it is embedded in them, in a certain regime of truth. There is a certain truth about freedom, and the latter is not opposed to government; on the contrary, it is its most important resource. Thus, there is no escape from power into freedom.

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