[Revised entry by Helen Frowe and Jonathan Parry on September 18, 2026.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Killing and harming others are paradigmatic wrongs. And yet there is at least one intuitive exception to this prohibition – namely, killing or harming in self-defense, or in defense of others. Consider:…
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...
