Mo Weimin on Foucault: The Unnamed Forum

Author: Mo Weimin
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book only explains one aspect of Foucault's vast intellectual treasure, but it still strives to capture the main aspects of his philosophy and history, avoiding the impression of being incomplete. At the same time, because this book only selects certain points, lines, and planes of Foucault's multifaceted thoughts, the areas that remain unexplored and those that can still be improved will be open before the author, providing abundant possibilities for further attention and in-depth research in the future. Although the ethics of "taking care of oneself" that Foucault advocates reminds one of the self-cultivation theories in Chinese Confucianism, and although the fields covered by Foucault's thought are quite broad, it cannot be denied that Foucault still has his blind spots and areas he cannot attend to. It is precisely because Foucault is aware of his own limitations, like others, that he denies the existence of universally applicable truths and denies that universal intellectuals have the role of speaking on behalf of everyone. Thus, whether Foucault researchers and critics adopt the of deliberately belittling or artificially exaggerating, it should be something Foucault would not want to see. As a knowledge subject related to truth, a power subject related to the field of power, and an ethical subject related to ascetic practices, the real Foucault is presented to us in this way.