Discussion
Which one of the following thinkers stressed the productive dimension of power ?
Answer: A
The thinker who stressed the productive dimension of power is Foucault.
Michel Foucault argued that power should not be seen only as something that forbids and represses. In Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality he showed how power produces knowledge, identities, norms and the very subjects it governs, through disciplines such as the prison, the school and medicine.
Mill treated power mainly as a threat to individual liberty to be limited. Marx saw power as rooted in class domination, and Lasswell defined politics as who gets what, when and how. None of them made the productive side of power his theme.
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