Foucault' Michael Foucault Was Born Term Paper

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Take for example, Foucault's 'Omnus at singulatim', in which the thinker shows his reader how the Christian practice of 'pastoral power' paves the way for certain modern practices that in actuality govern almost all the aspects of a living population anywhere in the world. Foucault also stressed on his belief that religion, in a positive way, possessed the capacity to contest against the nascent forms of control instituted during the modern period of man, like for example, Protestant Reformation, which tried its best to resist the onslaught of emerging forms, and therefore, became representative of a set of emerging disciplinary discourses and practices.

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As far as Foucault was concerned, religion presented difficulties for autonomous self fashioning, but at the same time, religion was not a dangerous precursor to modern forms of governments.

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To conclude, it must be said that Michael Foucault's theories are as relevant today as they were years ago, and one can gain a better understanding of concepts such as power, sexuality, and discipline, among others, by using Foucault's theories in real life applications......

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