Foucault’s resistance lacks grounding because he abandons ideology
Evidence
I don’t see how you can retain the notion of “resistance,” as he does, without facing questions about the constitution of dominance in ideology. Foucault’s evasion of the question is at the heart of his proto-anarchist position precisely because his resistance must be summoned up from nowhere. Nobody knows where it comes from. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 723
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Echoes critiques of Foucault’s thin account of resistance found in Marxist and feminist theory.
Related
- Foucault’s own studies converge on the rise of industrial capitalism despite his anti-reductionist stance (similarity 0.86)
- Foucault secretly anchors all history at industrial capitalism’s rise (similarity 0.84)
- Foucault’s late turn back to Nietzsche still fails to ground resistance. (similarity 0.83)
- Foucault’s anti-economism leads him to erase class and rebellion (similarity 0.82)
- Omnipresent power undermines the grounding of resistance in Foucault’s theory (similarity 0.80)
- Foucault’s power theory cannot assess changing balance of forces without ideology (similarity 0.80)
- Hall admired Foucault despite criticizing his underspecified account of resistance. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Foucault’s own studies converge on the rise of industrial capitalism despite his anti-reductionist stance
#complicates(0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 207