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Foucauldian

Foucauldian

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A person who follows Michel Foucault's ideas about power and society
  • noun
  • /fuˈkoʊldɪən/
  • Jargon
: foucauldiano
  • Many scholars identify themselves as Foucauldian due to their focus on how knowledge influences societal norms.
  • Foucauldian terms
  • Foucauldian analysis
  • more Foucauldian

Examples

  • In her thesis, she applied Foucauldian theories to analyze the relationships between language and power.

  • This is why I remain unsatisfied by D. A. Miller's influential Foucauldian argument about the novel.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Inclusion of what might be called "applied feminist Foucauldian work"

    Academic text (1992)
  • The present article seeks to offer a substantially different frame of analysis than the Foucauldian approaches more frequently taken.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Within a Foucauldian context, Nora's final and famous gesture declares her separation from the fixed representation of a wife.

    Academic text (1997)
  • In Foucauldian terms, this heterotopic death is a postcolonial trauma that can create new meaning as its history unfolds.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Although there are many who would still find in Butler's challenge a negation of feminist practice, such Foucauldian-inspired work has proven and will continue to prove useful to feminists in tackling issues of solidarity and identity.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Tompkins's essay originally served as a response to Ellen Messer-Davidow's "The Philosophical Bases of Literary Criticism," an article that takes up Foucauldian methods in theorizing and historicizing the boundaries of academic disciplines.

    Academic text (1992)
  • David Shumway's response, "Solidarity or Perspectivity," invokes the Foucauldian concept of genealogy to talk about disciplinary hierarchies (110).

    Academic text (1992)
  • A true Foucauldian perspective can reveal how power dynamics shape social institutions.

Surface Forms

Foucauldian singular
Foucauldians plural

Morphology

Foucauldian = Foucault (semi-transparent) = Foucault + ian

Regularly formed from the name 'Foucault' with '-ian' to indicate a person associated with his ideas; the morphological relation is clear, though the specific meaning relies on knowledge of Foucault.

Etymology

Foucauldian comes from the name of the French thinker Foucault. A Foucauldian is someone who follows his ideas about how 'power' and 'knowledge' shape people and society, so a Foucauldian studies how institutions and rules control behavior.