摘要：The paper will largely focus on Foucault’s discussion on his notion of ‘discourse’ which has such an enormous influence on cultural analysis. His denunciation of ‘fons et origo’ of discourse and call for treating it as and when it occurs will also be discussed. He says that forms of continuity and unity are just the result of a construction following the rules with its own justification. What will also be discussed is his theorizing of relationship between knowledge, truth, and power. He shows that truth is produced through multiple forms of constrain and induces effects of power. His definition of the regime of power-knowledge-pleasure that sustains the will to knowledge will also be examined. His anti-essentialist claim that man is a new wrinkle in our knowledge, his genealogical approach, and his denial that power is something which is merely coercive in a traditional Marxism or Weberian perspective associate him to both poststructuralist and postmodernism.
