Historico-political analysis explains order from below through confusion, violence, and strife

Evidence

It uses as an interpretive principle the confusion of violence, passions, hatreds, revenge, and the tissue of the minor circumstances that create defeats and victories. The elliptical and dark god of battles must explain the long days of order, work, and peace. Fury must explain harmonies. … So we have the very opposite of those traditional analyses that try to find beneath the apparent or superficial confusion, beneath the visible brutality of bodies and passions, a basic rationality which is both permanent and related, by its very essence, to the just and the good. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 284

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the second trait of historico-political discourse: it inverts the traditional values of intelligibility by explaining order from the confused underside.
• XREF: connects to: Political movements should be analyzed via mass content and balance of forces; Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 151; The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 251 (+4 more)

Related

• Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. (similarity 0.81)
• Historical knowledge is itself a weapon within the war it narrates (similarity 0.79)
• The State-model history subordinates war and domination to the State. (similarity 0.79)
• Political movements should be analyzed via mass content and balance of forces (similarity 0.78)
• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods #complicates (0.85) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860
• Tracing feudalism’s origins to religious-racial war legitimated the social order externally #exemplifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 141
• Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions #qualifies (0.72)