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Throughout his works, Michel Foucault attempts to describe the mechanisms of power that are produced & reproduced in modernity. His approaches to this theme are critical, genealogical, & archeological. In Historia de la locura en la edad clasica (History of Mental Insanity in the Classical Age), Foucault uses genealogical elements from Friedrich Nietzche & Martin Heidegger, but also from Giambatista Vico, whose principal work was La Ciencia Nueva (The New Science). To investigate the irrational side of humans, Foucault's work took on an archeological dimension. Foucault's strength was not in his genealogical or archeological methods, but more in his intentional maps & unusual attention to repressed & repulsed problems. As a result, Foucault produced a theory of power in which power is a result of confrontational relations. M. Pflum