DEĞERLİ BİR ÇILGINLIK VE HATA: FoucAULT (FOUCAULT VE FAULT – HATA/ARIZA)
WORTHY MADNESS AND MISTAKE: FoucAULT (FOUCAULT AND FAULT – ERROR)

Summary/Abstract: In this article; The basic concepts produced by the French sociologist and philosopher Michel Foucault, the subject, the death of the subject, the self, power, basic types of power (absolute power, disciplinary power, bio-power), punishment, discourse, the archeology of knowledge, genealogy, dispositif, archive and episteme is addressed. In addition, the relationship between power and body, and the relations of power and domination are examined. Within these concepts and evaluations, the contradictions between both his own poststructuralist and his refusal to accept this and his basic views are revealed with his own expressions. With regard to "power", which is one of his most fundamental works, he says on the one hand that power (in other words, institutions of subordination) is not oppressive and domineering; On the other hand, he argues that power has nothing to do with the consent of the society and a consensus. Even the concept of the Great Closure means great domination and the consequent "death of the Subject". It is also not understandable that Foucault, while evaluating political power on a macro scale, confused the issue by bringing it to the concept of "sexual power" and reducing it to the micro level (particular and micro power). Another point of discussion arises in fundamental issues such as "child sexuality", "torture" and "drugs". Although he produced about 550 pages of thought in Words and Things, where he made the archeology of human sciences, he is still undecided about what language is and could not find the answers to these basic questions.

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