如果福柯理论也是权力的体现——论批判的可能性与性质

If Foucault's Theory Is also a Manifestation of the Power:The Possibility and Nature of Criticism

当福柯宣称"所有的知识都是权力的体现"时,他并未有自打嘴巴。就算他自己的观点也是权力的体现,批判仍是可能的,因为偏见——即体现权力的知识——是可以区分为有用的和没用的。在"真理"的存在已经备受怀疑的后形而上学的时代,批判只能属于系谱式批判。用偏见去挑战偏见,让我们走出偏见,摆脱来自偏见的支配。批判的基础在于哪一个偏见更有用。当然,有用的偏见仍然是偏见,不是真理。我们不能期望批判能带来一步到位的社会改造。

When Foucault claimed that 'all knowledge is a manifestation of the power',he had not been self-contradictory.Even his own view is a manifestation of the power,criticism is still possible,because bias-that reflects the power of knowledge-can be divided into useful and useless things.In the era of post-metaphysics,the existence of the 'truth' has been a suspected thing,and criticism can only belong to genealogy-style's criticism.We should utilize bias to challenge prejudice,and let us walk out of bias to be free from the dominant of the prejudice.Criticism is based on a bias which is more useful.Of course,the useful prejudice is still prejudice,rather than truth.We can not expect criticism to bring social transformation all at once.