The application of Michel Foucault's philosophy in the problem externalizing discourse of Michael White

Abstract

This paper examines how Michael White's theoretical and practice orientation can be mapped onto the work of French philosopher/historian Michel Foucault. Specifically, Foucault's analysis of his three modes of the objectification of the subject and the inseparability of power and knowledge will be viewed as similar to, and shaping of, White's conceptions of externalizing internalized problem discourse. Where religions once demanded the sacrifice of bodies, knowledge now calls for experimentation on ourselves, calls us to the sacrifice of the subject of knowledge Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization Copyright © 1992, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved