Michel Foucault introduced a new form of political thinking and
discourse. Rather than seeking to understand the grand unities of
state, economy, or exploitation, he tried to discover the
micropolitical workings of everyday life that have often founded
the greater unities. He was particularly concerned with how we
understand ourselves psychologically, and thus with how
psychological knowledge developed and came to be accepted as true.
In the course of his writings, he developed a genealogy of
psychology, an account of psychology as a historically developed
practice of power.
The problem such an account raises for much of traditional
philosophy is that Foucault's critique of psychological concepts is
ultimately a critique of the idea of the mind as a politically
neutral ontological concept. As such, it renders politically
suspect all forms of subjective foundationalism, and the
epistemological justification for Foucault's own writings is then
called into question. Drawing on the writings of such
Anglo-American philosophers as Wilfrid Sellars and Ludwig
Wittgenstein, Todd May refutes the idea that Foucault's critiques
of knowledge, and especially psychological knowledge, undermine
themselves.
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