Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016

M.FOUCAULT ON KNOWLEDGE AND SOME PARALLELS WITH WITTGENSTEIN: A COMPARISON

Anindita Banerjee Gupta

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 In present day philosophy ,Michel Foucault and Ludwig Wittgenstein are two well-known names. Though they belong to two different philosophical traditions,till some comparisons may be drawn between them.In spite of some obvious differences, both of them were seriously concerned with the issue of language and believed that the role of a knower is not fundamental in case of knowledge. Foucault laid emphasis on discourse analysis and rule-following while discussing about knowledge. Similarly Wittgenstein also focussed on following a rule and compared language with a game played according to rules. Wittgenstein speaks of language as a form of life-----as a part of an activity. Foucault says that it is power which shapes rule-governing discourse. Rules cannot be followed privately, so, Wittgenstein is of opinion that there cannot be any private language. Both of them believed that language is basically a social practice and can be traced back to a communitarian context. ABSTRACT KEYWORDS : KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE, POWER,

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ANINDITA BANERJEE( GUPTA) M.FOUCAULT ON KNOWLEDGE AND SOME PARALLELS WITH WITTGENSTEIN: A COMPARISON Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 5, Issue : 3 March 2016

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