r/foucault

Isn't Foucault's vision of power essentialist? Doesn't he need to presuppose that there is a tendency to power in human nature, if power is everywhere and immanent? Or is it an emergent property of human relationships?

Is it even only human?

Why does it emerge spontaneously in human relationships? It seems to me that Foucault in what I read of him (The Psychiatric Power, The Anomalous) speaks more of "how" than "why".

Where does power come from? Or else: how does it emerge? Sorry for my English, I'm French.

I’ve started to read Paul Rabinow’s The Foucault Reader recently. I tought the concepts Foucault was writing about was interesting so i just picked up an introduction book about him. I have no experience of philosophy except several easy-reading books. I was reading the introduction part of this book and man, even the trailer is hard to deal with. It seems like he is using regular vocabulary with specific meanings he linked to them like many other philosopher. But it is hard to get them without an explicit explanation and not knowing what the actual fuck he is talking about and who he has beef with and why. Isn’t there a way to understand him without having detailed knowledge about what was going on in the philosophy scene and direct meaning of the terms he is talking about? Also english is not my mother tounge and i guess it makes things even harder.

I’ve read Nietzsche. Interested in Foucault as a next step.