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WOF 349: Understanding the Present Moment #4 (Michel Foucault)

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

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Foucault's Archaeology of Ideas

Foucault traffic in what he might call the archaeology of ideas. He's more interested in what he calls coercive power, meaning all those ways that we subtly structure society. Foucault wants to think about how people are going to behave a certain way and then dig down underneath it.

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