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Comment on Foucault’s concept of power.

  • UPSC 2023
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  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Michel Foucault does not ask who holds power. He asks how it is exercised. He defines it as the multiplicity of force relations running through society (The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, 1976). On this view power is a relation, not a possession, and it produces as much as it prohibits. He traced it through…

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