浙江社会科学

权力理论是福柯思想的核心,福柯对于疯癫、监狱、性、身体、惩罚、真理与知识等问题的研究并非只是单个问题的研究,而是通过对这些看似边缘问题的深入研究来揭露现代规训社会的本质。在现代规训社会,统治阶级运用规训权力对身体进行监视与规训,针对身体的微观物理学渗透到社会生活的各个领域。福柯认为,现代权力体制的运作离不开性,性是所有的权力都规训、监视的目标。权力不是压制性的,而是生产性的,权力生产知识、生产真理,知识、真理又为权力效力,知识与权力的结盟是现代性的主要特征。

Power theory is the core of Foucault's thought. Foucault holds that the problems such as insanity, prison, sex, body, punishment, truth and knowledge should not be treated as individual issue during the investigation. Foucault reveals the essence of the modern disciplinary society through making an intensive study of these problems. In modern disciplinary society, ruling class monitors the body by means of the disciplinary power, and the microphysics, which aims to monitor the body, has penetrated into all fields of social lives. Foucault regards that the operation of modern power system can hardly do without sex, and sex is disciplined by all powers. Power is not repressive but productive. Power yields knowledge and truth, knowledge and the truth in turn serve the power, and the alignment of knowledge and power is the main characteristic of modernity.