Discourse exceeds ideology by refusing the true-false distinction about facts
Evidence
I would like to show you how this historical instrument must not be seen as the ideology or an ideological product of the nobility or its class position, and that we are not dealing with an ideology here; we are dealing with something else. What I am trying to identify is what might, if you like, be termed a discursive tactic, a deployment of knowledge and power which, insofar as it is a tactic, is transferable and eventually becomes the law governing the formation of a knowledge and, at the same time, the general form of the political battle. So the discourse on history 1s generalized, but in a tactical sense. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Representation and misrepresentation differ only by degree within a shared field of discourse.; Totalitarianism’s ideal subject cannot distinguish fact from fiction or true from false; Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205 (+7 more)
Related
- Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology (similarity 0.93)
- Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. (similarity 0.85)
- Historico-political discourse claims partisan truth that functions as a weapon, excluding juridical universality (similarity 0.82)
- Foucault replaces ideology with discourse because social statements are never simply true or false. (similarity 0.81)
- War-deciphering discourse is historico-political, critical and mythical rather than juridical (similarity 0.81)
- A homogeneous epistemological field enables political tactical uses of discourse (similarity 0.81)
- Historical discourse divides into philology, political economy, and biology (similarity 0.78)
- History became the discourse each class used to claim its rights (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 205