Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

1.3.04 This is not to say that I am anti academic; but I am anti the exclusion of the
‘know-how’ against the ‘know-that’. I am also a nt i the construction of the discipline based
mostly on connaissance knowledge with t he exclusion of savoir knowledge. I am trying to
come to terms with that sense of detachment between what I perceive as savoir knowledge
with the connaissance knowledge found in the discipline. It is not my intent to challenge
the power of the discipline but to look at its development and better understand the ‘how
and why’ of its history, and the ‘system of thought’ by which it has evolved.
1.3.05 Foucault in his position as the ‘Chair of the History of Systems of Thought’ has a
specialist’s position in this endeavour. As Rabinow [1991, p12] offers “rather, once again,
it was the effective operations of these disciplines – how and around what concepts they
formed, how they were used, w here they developed – that was Foucault’s prey”.
1.3.06 According to Rabinow [1991], Foucault was also aware of something akin to the
sense of detachment I have described.
It is not by studying human nature that linguists discovered the laws of consonant
mutation, or Freud the principles of the analysis of dreams, or cultural
anthropologists the structure of myths. In the history of knowledge the notion of
human nature seems to me to have mainly to have played the role of … designating
certain types of discourse in relation to or in opposition to theology, biology or
history. ……. [p4].
Rabinow [1991] explains further: “Foucault asserts that knowledge did not slowly detach
itself from its empirical roots, the initial needs from which it arose, to become pure
speculation subject onl y to the de mands of reason …..” [p7]. The concept of the discipline
being a construction was introduced in 1.2.3.06.I would assume that it is possible that the
sense of detachment increases as a greater level of construction of connaissance
knowledge means that this knowledge becomes further removed from savoir knowledge.
1.3.07 Whereas “Foucault never took these discourses from the inside” [Rabinow, 1991,
p4] , my investigation goes deepe r than examining a discourse from the ins ide to the
examination of the discipline from the inside. “For Foucault, knowledge of all sorts is
thoroughly enmeshed in the clash of petty dominations, as well as the larger battles which
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