Knowledge is produced by strategic struggle rather than by human nature

Evidence

The perspectival character of knowledge does not derive from human nature, but always from the polemical and strategic character of knowledge. One can speak of the perspectival character of knowledge because there is a battle and knowledge is the effect of this battle. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 17

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘strategic model’ of knowledge specifically against a naturalistic/neutral account of knowledge — a core concept to carry into Islamophobia readings.
• XREF: This is the Nietzschean perspectivism Foucault deploys; connects directly to the reader’s Orientalism and ‘construction of the Other’ track — the claim that representation is always a weapon in a struggle. — connects to: Theory is deployed strategically as bricolage rather than produced as autonomous object; A new science must defeat its strongest intellectual opponents to prove itself; Knowledge acquisition is an active creative process, not mechanical reception (+5 more)

Related

• Education is a struggle against nature that forms each new generation (similarity 0.86)
• Theory is deployed strategically as bricolage rather than produced as autonomous object (similarity 0.85)
• Knowledge acquisition is an active creative process, not mechanical reception (similarity 0.81)
• Strategic intelligibility forms a third logic distinct from epistemic coherence and sovereignty. (similarity 0.80)
• Historical knowledge is itself a weapon within the war it narrates (similarity 0.80)
• Fields of knowledge are constrained by society, culture, and institutional power (similarity 0.79)
• Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. (similarity 0.79)
• Foucault held that all knowledge is a product of discourse bound up with power. (similarity 0.79)
• Nietzsche reduces all knowledge claims to will-to-power purposes (similarity 0.78)
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power (similarity 0.78)
• Knowledge replaces royal wealth and force as the source of sovereignty. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language #expands (0.85)
• Knowledge of social life does not produce greater control over fate #qualifies (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 111