Starting with Foucault: An Introduction to Genealogy, Second Edition

The Faces of Trzcth 1-41ment of that vision is rnisconstrual of it as irrealist, as entailing denial of thewrld. The next chapter focuses on this point, 3% close this chapter it sufficesto reiterate that what holds Foucault5s five uses of truth twether, whatmakes them all notions of truth, is their shared commendatory force. Whatseparates the uses into five distinct notions are the contextual peculiaritiesof how each use of "is true'yis justified and justifies other attributions oftruth. All five kinds of attribution of truth commend sentences or beliefs regardlessof context. But each attribution must meet criteria peculiar to particularcontexts, and each attribution hnaions in a way peculiar ts particularcontexts, Z now turn to the question of whether all this denies theworld.Motes1. Foucault 1989:295,2. Foucadt 198013:66,3. Foucault 1989:314,4.1 offer this list we11 aware af Foucault's use oEJorge his Borgcs" s"animal""f;stin The Order of 7"hi~gs.5. Xn the first edition T called this tl-te srelativistlcn use,6. Foucault 1980b: 131.7. F~ucault 1980b:131.8. Compare Burrell 1988; Hoo3per and I'ratt 1993.9. FoucauXt 198033:"33,10. Foucault 1984 b:17,11. Foucault 198033:118,12, Clear exarnptcs occur in court, as when a judge or jury establishes that an actwas, say, culpably negligent, therek making a prosecutorial description true,13, Foucauit 1980h:I 31,14. I return ra this point in considering some remarks by Tr~dcS May.1.5, Hacking 1981:29.16, Nietzsche 1968a:267, my emphasis,17. NietzscZ~e 1968a:330,18. Nietzsche 1968a:267,19, Kraltsz 1989:l.20, Nellarnas 3 985:64,21, Krausz 1989:1,22. May 1993:80,23. May 1993:";a.24, iMay 1993:';79.25. Nietzsche 186Sa:298,26. F~ucault 1980b:I 17.27, Bernauer and Rasmussen 1988:15.28. See Allen 19531.29, Foueault 19"7:78; 1988b:107,