The challenge of postmodernism to the human service professions

Journal of Applied Philosophy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-92

  Trainor, Brian T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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EID: 32644479173     PISSN: 02643758     EISSN: 14685930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5930.00142     Document Type: Article

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2. B. T. TRAINOR (1998) The Origin and End of Modernity: Reflections on the meaning of postmodernism, (Quebec, World Heritage Press).
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7. Leonard, (1979) Notes on the form of knowledge in social work. Sociological Review, 27, p. 22. It is certainly beyond dispute that in his earlier writings Foucault does indeed speak in this seemingly deterministic way. However, it should be noted that Foucault’s emphasis in his earlier writings on the social production of individuals and the processes of ‘objectivisation’ and ‘normalisation’ — Foucault (1977) states in Discipline and Punish, (New York, Pantheon) that ‘discipline “makes” individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.’ (p. 170) — is counterbalanced in his later work by a focus on ‘subjectivisation’, the ‘care of the self ’ and the ‘specific intellectual’. I deliberately use the term ‘counterbalanced’ here to try to steer a judiciously neutral course between sympathetic critics of Foucault, who would no doubt prefer the more positive term ‘complemented’, and hostile critics who might claim that ‘contradicted’ would be a more appropriate term to employ. In Postmodern Welfare: Reconstructing an emancipatory project (Sage Publications: London), Leonard (1997) discusses Foucault’s focus in his later work on ‘subjectivisation’ and — perhaps partly as a consequence of so doing — he moves closer towards the kind of ‘ambivalently anti-modernist postmodernism’ which is discussed in the next section.
8. H. JEFFREYS and B. TRAINOR (2000: forthcoming) Postmodernism, Social Work and the Human Service ‘Disciplines’: The Foucault Effect (Quebec: World Heritage Press), my co-author and I investigate the influence of postmodernism on social work and present a general assessment of the contribution of the later Foucault to the human service professions.
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