Necessities and non necessity Foucault reading of power

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Afshin Eshkevar kiaei ¹ , Ali Ashraf Nazari ² , ahmad saee ³ , Kamal pooladi ⁴

1 - Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Tehran
3 - Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Department of Political Science, Chalous Branch, Islamic Azad University, Chalous, Iran.

Received: 2021-05-08 Accepted : 2021-09-21 Published : 2021-08-23

Keywords: Power, Government, Law, sovereignty, genealogy,

Abstract :

Understanding the nature of "power" from ancient political philosophy to modern philosophy has been considered in various ways, but here we analyze the concept of power from Foucault's methodological point of view, which had many critiques of different views of power. In this research, we first seek to understand the concept of power from Foucault's point of view and then examine the difference between his perception and that of others. Accordingly, the question that this article seeks to answer is what exactly does Foucault mean by power and what does not, and what is the meaning of power in Foucault's method apparatus? in this study, to answer this question, since the discussion of power in Foucault's genealogical method is an important and central concept, and Foucault himself always tried to express his distinction from the concept of power and others' understanding of power; Here we have also tried to examine this concept in Foucault's methodology in two parts called what is not power and what is power With a qualitative research approach and a descriptive method and through documentary and library study.