Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, in “Beauvoir and feminism: interview and reflections” by Susan J. Brison, The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
Poststructuralism as a Regime of Truth: Foucault and the Paradox of Philosophical Authority
Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
