The dialectic neutralized a prior historical discourse of race struggle

Evidence

Foucault calls this historico-political discourse on conquest “historicism,” and thus picks up, either directly or indirectly, the thesis formulated, in a very different context and for very different purposes, in 1936 by Friedrich Meinecke in his Die Entstehung des Historismus. This is a discourse of struggles, a discourse of battles, and a discourse of races. In the nineteenth century, the “dialectic” appears to have coded, and therefore “neutralized,” these struggles. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 298

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Foucault’s historiographical sense of ‘historicism’ as a discourse of conquest, battle, and race, distinct from Meinecke’s philosophical formulation.
• XREF: Connects to Said’s Orientalism and later critical-theory readings where a discourse is coded and neutralized — the mechanism by which race-struggle history was absorbed. — connects to: Marx derived the idea of class struggle from race-struggle historiography — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 2457; Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 96; The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 104 (+3 more)

Related

• Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle (similarity 0.86)
• The Hegelian dialectic colonized war discourse into philosophy (similarity 0.85)
• The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism (similarity 0.84)
• Historical discourse functioned as an instrument forged in struggles over power. (similarity 0.83)
• Race-struggle discourse replaces sovereign unity with a principle of heterogeneity (similarity 0.82)
• Marx derived the idea of class struggle from race-struggle historiography (similarity 0.81)
• Foucault treated history as war and battle, not language and meaning. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Race-struggle discourse replaces sovereign unity with a principle of heterogeneity #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 86
• The Hegelian dialectic colonized war discourse into philosophy #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 75
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism #expands (0.72)