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On Smith on Foucault on Power, Knowledge, and Discipline
3 Comments Published by Cynthia R. Nielsen May 19th, 2006 in Herman Dooyeweerd, James K.A. Smith, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Postmodernism, Power/Knowledge ThemeIn chapter four, “Power/Knowledge/Discipline: Foucault and the Possibilities of a Postmodern Church,” of his book, Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church, James K.A. Smith engages what has become a Foucaultian slogan, “power is knowledge”—again de-mythologizing many of the popular (evangelical) mis-understandings leveled against Foucault. As Smith explains, “for Foucault, at [...]
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