Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault (15 October, 1926 25 June, 1984), was a French philosopher, sociologist and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley.

Foucault is best known for his critical studies of social institutions, most notably psychiatry, medicine, the human sciences, and the prison system, as well as for his work on the history of human sexuality. His work on power, and the relationships among power, knowledge, and discourse has been widely discussed. In the 1960s Foucault was associated with Structuralism, a movement from which he distanced himself. Foucault also rejected the post-structuralist and postmodernist labels to which he was often later attributed, preferring to classify his thought as a critical history of modernity rooted in Kant. Foucault is particularly influenced by the work of Nietzsche; his "genealogy of knowledge" is a direct allusion to Nietzsche's genealogy of morals. In a late interview he definitively stated: "I am a Nietzschean."

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[karovievAndMadness]

enlish subtltles pleaseeeee

[melruffa]

Si alguien sería tan amable de subtitular al español, nos haría un gran favor =) Muchas gracias!

[SJamesGray]

@karovievAndMadness

you could also learn French

[8bobthebuilder]

@samizdat45 lol

[8bobthebuilder]

Whose house are they at? :)

[Metalheadtill1die]

@fremsley001 Whereas German philosophy, and Ancient Greek philosophy, accomplished important achievements. Such as defining the scientific methodology, in the philosophy of science, which was a school of philosophy stemming back to Aristotle. Who defined terms such as the logic of deductive and inductive arguments. Nietzsche,Goethe, Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, all made significant contributions, in terms of discussing phenomena (nature) through philosophical writings. The French...only Derrida.

[Metalheadtill1die]

@sidework1 Foucault was definitely not Nietzschean. His "genealogy of knowledge" is nothing more than a gesturing at, his own ego-pontification. It is hard for many people to accept, that knowledge is derived, through mathematics,language,biology,p­hysics,chemistry and neuroscience. Because consciousness, gives humans the ability to dream of thought experiments like, "brain in the vat" and that our knowledge is not actually "real" or an "illusion". Duality is an illusion of imagination.

[greenandsheep]

なんかかっこいいよね、フーコーさん。

[sidework1]

what a douche...