Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 1 of 7

This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fou...

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Foucault at 02:33

[grrrantw]

I think Foucault is the greatest at speaking about a subject and, saying it in such a way no one will ever be able to understand it without thinking on their own.

[smobo1]

He was still a bore. It was exciting when he finally made his points, but for the sake of rigor, he took a long time to arrive to them.

[rohmann000]

true :-)

Also, I have always wondered: why do people bitch about philosophers, and call them "subjectivists" etc. just to put them into categories as if that would undermine their arguments? Is it because they "mess" with our ordinary language? You never hear anyone bitch about all the reductionistic ( ;-) ) scientists that say stuff like "actually the whole world is flat"; "actually we are just biologically superior apes" jadajadajada...

[Feralz Rape]

The same could be said about neoliberalism (term coined by economics illiteracy), reductionism and determinism (term coined by science illteracy).

[cesarcdx]

Razón no es iluminación.

[freedumb32]

not when you actually grasp what he's talking about

[Arumflower]

Foucault looks like Fantomas !

[rohmann000]

Postmodernism is not subjectivism. Postmodernism is not relativism. Postmodernism is not about being a dick (on youtube), because you can. NO PHILOSOPHER in the 20th century called him-/herself "postmodernist". It is like "poststructuralist" - a stupid term coined by stupid people who think that their stupid beliefs can be projected into the words of people who are not stupid.

Stop being stupid. Make the world less stupid. Thank you. With punctuation.

[bob loblaw]

There is no better way to say that than by having no punctuation or capitalization in your post. By the way, I thought post modernists couldn't believe anyone to be stupid. I am just viewing the world through the subjectivity of my own experiences. So actually, I'm an expert. And so are you!