The Power Thinker | Aeon

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https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever

A remarkably clear explanation and contextualization of the great Michel Foucault:

Herein lies the richness and the challenge of Foucault’s work. His is a philosophical approach to power characterised by innovative, painstaking, sometimes frustrating, and often dazzling attempts to politicise power itself. Rather than using philosophy to freeze power into a timeless essence, and then to use that essence to comprehend so much of power’s manifestations in the world, Foucault sought to unburden philosophy of its icy gaze of capturing essences.