Michel Foucault - French Documentary - arte-france (1/7)

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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[hyperseauton]

Come on, people, the emperor has no clothes:

Foucault was just writing down his own schizophrenic associations. The man had no idea of real analytic philosophy.

Why generations of French students have to bow to a charlatan is very showing of the religious nature of it: It is locality what religion one has and if you read Foucault or not.

[absinth1987]

@hyperseauton what is 'real analytic philosophy'?

[hyperseauton]

@absinth1987

People like Quine, Russell, Ayer, Kripke, Dennett and Rawls.

[absinth1987]

@hyperseauton and so those are the only ones which stand for a worthwhile and insightful type of philosophy?

[MalditoNihilista]

@absinth1987 Besides, as far as I am aware of, Michel Foucault is not considered part of the analytic tradition. Michel Foucault is considered a Continental, Post-Structuralist…

[absinth1987]

@MalditoNihilista yeah, of course, so he is what we in Europe call a real philosopher, what the academics in the Anglo-Saxon world calls a obscurantist – as far as they understand philosophy as nothing else then pure positivst logic

[hotstixx]

@AnaKosta thanks so much for this most generous and not in the least self aggrandising advice.

[AnaKosta]

@hotstixx If you are supposed to enjoy philosophy fully, you should know how to read/speak Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, German, Italian and French (at least... I don't bother to refer to Arabic and Hebrew...). English is not enough. As you see French is child stuff... Take a course at the Alliance Française...

[kontrapunkti]

@MrBouzeux

Touche

[MrBouzeux]

@hyperseauton Maybe you should watch the video again, he's saying "I'm not a philosopher, I'm doing history".

[hotstixx]

subtitles would be great.

[AnotherOrangeJulius]

Buddy, now you're being dogmatic.

[kant175720]

can this be translated?



[ClaisseHume]

^^