Historical knowledge is itself a weapon within the war it narrates

Evidence

History encounters nothing but war, but history can never really look down on this war from on high; history cannot get away from war, or discover its basic laws or impose limits on it, quite simply because war itself supports this knowledge, runs through this knowledge, and determines this knowledge. Knowledge 1s never anything more than a weapon in a war, or a tactical deployment within that war. War is waged throughout history, and through the history that tells the history of war. And history, for its part, can never do anything more than interpret the war it is waging or that is being waged through it. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 189

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: War-deciphering discourse is historico-political, critical and mythical rather than juridical — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 285; Disciplined history coexists with a combative political historical consciousness — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 202; Knowledge is produced by strategic struggle rather than by human nature — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 17 (+7 more)

Related

• War-deciphering discourse is historico-political, critical and mythical rather than juridical (similarity 0.91)
• Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. (similarity 0.86)
• Historicism analyzes the mutual constitution of war and historical narrative. (similarity 0.83)
• Historical discourse functions as a transferable tactic, not an ideology (similarity 0.83)
• The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. (similarity 0.82)
• Eighteenth-century historical discourse made war the primary analyzer of political relations (similarity 0.81)
• Foucault proposed war as the model for understanding political power (similarity 0.81)
• Knowledge is produced by strategic struggle rather than by human nature (similarity 0.80)
• Historico-political discourse claims partisan truth that functions as a weapon, excluding juridical universality (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplined history coexists with a combative political historical consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Boulainvilliers read history to rediscover a primal rightful relationship of force (similarity 0.79)
• Historico-political analysis explains order from below through confusion, violence, and strife (similarity 0.79)
• Foucault treated history as war and battle, not language and meaning. (similarity 0.79)
• The West has only ever theorized power through the legal-juridical lens (similarity 0.78)
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. #corroborates (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 151
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power #expands (0.84)
• War-deciphering discourse is historico-political, critical and mythical rather than juridical #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 285
• Historical narratives function as disguised lessons in constitutional law #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 141
• Disciplined history coexists with a combative political historical consciousness #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 202
• Boulainvilliers read history to rediscover a primal rightful relationship of force #exemplifies (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 206
• Knowledge is produced by strategic struggle rather than by human nature #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 17
• The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. #complicates (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 251