Michel Foucault: From the Ship of Fools to Psychiatric Power
There is a type of knowledge that presents itself as entirely neutral—as if it merely records reality exactly as it is, free from self-interest, ideology, or history. Medicine claims to describe the body. Psychiatry claims to describe the mind. Jurisprudence claims to describe justice. Modernism, that massive intellectual climate that defined the 19th and 20th […]