Michel Foucault und Judith Butler über sexuellen Missbrauch und Inzest

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Abstract Michel Foucault and Judith Butler on Sexual Abuse and the Incest-Taboo Starting from a critical discussion of Judith Butler’s definition of sexual abuse of children, the article analyzes Michel Foucault’s thesis of freedom of lust in premodern communities. Foucault’s main theory of »regimes of truth« opposed all naïve concepts of political emancipation and at the same time strengthens them. This is shown with a discussion of Butler’s theory of »compulsive heterosexuality« and her critique of the incest taboo. Foucault on the other side argued against a legal age of consent for children. In this both philosophers are on the wrong track.