PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
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- Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed.
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“Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French 20th-century philosopher and historian who spent his career forensically critiquing the power of the modern bourgeois capitalist state, including its police, law courts, prisons, doctors and psychiatrists. His goal was to work out nothing less than how power worked and then to change it in the direction of a Marxist-anarchist utopia. Though he spent most of his life in libraries and seminar rooms, he was a committedly revolutionary figure, who met with enormous popularity in elite Parisian intellectual circles (Jean Paul Sartre admired him deeply) and still maintains a wide following among young people studying at university in the prosperous corners of the world…”
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Foucault: Schools serve the same social function as prisons and mental institutions
Foucault's mum: You're still going
😆
That was my thought in year 10. If only I was in the kind of environment where someone would hand me a book by Foucault. I would have loved it and and I wonder where is be now...
You did have that kind of intellectual grasp of society at age 10... sorry
@@Ozrictentacles87 year 10 at school and is age 15
:D
The person who put Korean subtitles translated ‘medical gaze’ into ‘medical gays’ lolol
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@@rosed.4754 Really?
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dude's life escalated in the span of 6 seconds lmao
I went from 🤔 to 😬 to 😨 to 🤯
1:57 That's my Dad!!!!
I was watching this video at about 3am in bed and low and behold that picture of my dad pops up !!! I sent him the video link the next day and asked "Dad is there something you're not telling me!? Were you Foucaults Lover and drug dealer in Paris? Haaa"
He still denies his involvement but being the french hippy he doesn't remember much from that period!
The photo is taken from a performance he did with a theatre company called 'The General Will', a piece called 'Masculinity' in which he paraded around with a fake hairy chest mocking the idea of masculinity and machismo!!
Anyway Hilarious that School of life chose that photo, thanks for much unintended jokes haaaaa!!
True, that’s really cool! Wow!! Cool how someone never knows that someone else can become anyone :)
your dad sounds like a really cool person!
that's so dope, also your dad sounds so cool lol
Wow, that's crazy
HAHAHA thats awesome bro
"Foucault entered the underground gay scene in France, fell in love with a drug dealer, and then took up with a transvestite"........... Well that escalated quickly
Mmm yes agreed ,,...a bit heavy on Foucault 's sex life habits ... but interesting, I guess you have to be a trust fund brat to have the time to deconstruct social realities, lol.
+Penguin It is not so difficult to understand, many people seem to experience pain in the head when thinking revolutionary ideas that lead to new perspectives, which in turn leads to further questioning of society, or whatever it is they are thinking of. So rather than experiencing the pain they waste their life enjoying mundane entertainment like TV. I Don't consider video games being a waste of time though ;)
May I ask why aren't video games a waste of time in your eyes even if watching TV is? Would you label watching documentaries as mundane entertainment as well, or are you talking specifically about a type of entertainment that may be running on TV? Also, what else is mundane entertainment except of "TV"?
He wasted no time.
Sodium Raccoon do you expect any different from a Marxist?
"He covered his walls with violent images of torture by Goya..."
*Looks at bedroom wall covered with Goya's Disasters of War*
Shizzzz man
I'd do the same though, Goya is a nice painter.
Edgyy
In da trenchessss
He dismissed child abuse as "inconsequential bucolic pleasures", "barely furtive pleasures" and rage against it as "petty" ("History of Sexuality", p. 31 (English translation), campaigned in 1977 to allow rape of children, and has been accused of raping children in Tunis. This colours his philosophy on sex I would suggest.
He was accused of raping children in Tunis but the Tunisian government must have known about it which explains their media's total silence on the incident.
Colors his dreamy idealism? Like with what?
Link from the blood mixed with other fluids?
...yup, pedophile with Daddy issues...
I’m happy somebody else know this
This is horrific and we have to stop studying the “philosophy “ of perverted evil being like pedos
He is the perfect example for modern leftist parasites
"Childhood is what we spend the rest of our lives trying to get over" 😉
But is the pedophilia accusation true though?
I think that entire generation of French intellectuals were traumatized by the German occupation of France.
@@MakeMeThinkAgain and bourgeois bohemian lifestyle was a real blow too.
😂😂😂 Legendary comment
Plz tell me whose quote is this
I should know better than to go looking for philosophical insights in TH-cam comments.
I agree (a little) because I find many informative things... but why may I ask.
You have to be willing to dig into what normal people are saying when they have a veil of anonimity over them. There are plenty of insights to be had there.
Just breathe deep your own gathering gloom, that's most discerning in itself!
Brant Liu I think you're mistaken 2 view the greater acceptance of homosexuality as a causative Force. It is sadly true in my view that the scourge of HIV and AIDS forced and otherwise willfully blind Society to engage the homosexual community that was marginalized.
I mean whether you go to Harvard or the youtube comments section, it's still people that share ideas. It's just that Internet lacks the order an amphitheater would have.
He also shows how you can interpret history to suit yourself.
history is always interpreted to suit the interpreter
wrong
And written for the wealthy , and ignored by the masses
MakeMeThinkAgain perfect comment. I truly believe that Foucault, like many other gay people living in the shadow of contemporary culture he rebels against his own family and ancestry. #justifyanything
There definitely is historical fact because we know that there exists its antithesis.
Let's say I have two theories. 1 William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 because we wished to become king of England. 2.William the Conqueror invaded Brazil in 1066 because their system of discipline encouraged aggression towards people from Indonesia.
One theory can be completely disproven no matter how much interpretation one applies to it. The other can be argued about and debated and perhaps the process of argument gets us closer to an objective truth. We may never know if we've arrived at the objective truth but we can logically say that there is one.
The most important part is missing: the epistemic Foucault (Order of Things, Archelogy of Knowledge).
Till Nikolaus von Heiseler why is it important
@@MMfish_ Because in this less popular and scientific more profound books Foucault made a contribution to epistemology, which can be applied to many different fields.
Till Nikolaus von Heiseler Ok. Thanks for the reply! Truth be told epistemology isn’t something I have completely clarified, so as I come to read more I hope to clarify more things within me so that I can make connections for myself.
@@MMfish_ The classic epistemology is about absolute criteria of truth. Foucault, in contrast, reconstructs the historical foundations for the attribution of truth to a proposition or an idea.
@@tnvheiseler well thx man, this is one of the first sensible comments i've read so far over there
Wasn't this the guy who adamantly opposed the laws of consent in France, signed the open letter to abolish them altogether and was heavy "child lovers" apologist?
I was asking myself the same thing...
The attempt to normalize pedophilia is a natural consequence of the thought that "it is forbidden to forbid". The biggest irony is the defense of this type of stance comes from apologists for totalitarian political regimes, like Mao Zedong's China
@@heberpelagio7161 how is it "forbidden to forbid"? Are we this far gone into the rot that there is need to explain why diddeling kids is wrong?
@@Nobody32990 thank you for this . Pple are just plain dumb
Sartre and Beauvoir signed this shit too
"becomes an alter boy, yada yada yada, he starts cutting himself. "
I mean...me too though.
@@kafkafication3449 please don't
Not a single remark on Foucault's notions of discourse, dispositif, épistéme, etc., or his seminal studies "The Order of Things" or "Archaeology of Knowledge", but obscure remarks on his sexuality? Come on... a video on Foucault and no word on DISCOURSE? Like making a video about Beethoven without his 9th or 5th ...
they should have talked about the biopolitics too!
What else do you expect from a channel that presents simplified versions of philosophy
you're right...
pompous ass
steen why don't you rise to the challenge and develop your own channel since you are such a genius
Can't help think that the public execution is heavily related to what happened to George Floyd as a result of smart phones and social media
Correct. It revealed that the system is not kind, and brought sympathy to the victim and shame to the executioner and became the focus of protest. Just like Foucault said, or Alain de Botton, whoever.
I think it's related with the discursive democracy (Habermas) too, internet is a public sphere.
Exactly my thoughts
yeas exactly
@@arklowrockz well it could be argued that it was. But regardless of execution or murder systematic racism and racial profiling is a huge problem (all over the world) and people have every right to go out and stand up for their human rights. George Floyd wasn't the first or the last but it happened at a pivotal moment and a lot of people finally started to listen.
One psychiatrist correctly diagnosed his problem as his name.
"Fou" means crazy or mad in French. The psychiatrist noticed that every time Foucault wrote his name, he was reminded how crazy he was. He advised him to change his name to Gaicoult, which he did, and never had another problem. (Gai means happy - it only ironically has a second meaning).
Once he changed his name, he took up golf and performed at French stand up comedy clubs, most notably, Club Morissette. Ironically, the proprietor of that club is no relation to Alanis.
He planned to have the first gay wedding, but he called it off an hour before the ceremony because of his despair at the irony of the rain on his wedding day.
Seems like Foucault's writings were fueled by the resentment for his childhood
I' m pretty sure about it. I think childood is a stage of life which heavily influence our adult life in many aspects.
Exactly. Most resentful extremist and revoutionary writers (like Fanon) had perturbed minds
@@lordnoiado yeah. But i don t think perturbed minds always lead to great things ( good or bad, doesen t matter). Like other things in life you need luck and specific conditions to attain certain things.
@@Mattia-wo1dp agreed! I am critical of some of these writers (the ones I read, obviously), unfortunate as their lives may have been.
Why are there so many comments about this? As if being raised in a homophobic oppressive culture of bourgeois competition isn't a legitimate reason to write about how much it sucks.
There should be a "Post-Modernism vs Modernism" video
To notice the similarities and difference between "Romanticism vs Classic" in a more "up to date" view. Especially when Foucault is mentioned now.
Personally, If I ever get seriously ill, I'd far rather have a qualified medical doctor looking at me as "a collection of organs" than a postmodernist looking at me as a subjective phenomenon open to personal interpretation.
Jokes aside, Foucault's ideas have heavily influenced modern medical education. Nowadays, students are taught to look at patients not as a medical problem but as a whole human being comprising bio-psycho-social spheres. If I take the kidney failure example, while the bio is the organ damage, this will extend in cause to, for example, poor diet which is due to a hectic work life (social) which leads to stress further exacerbating the condition (psycho). In terms of effect, it can extend to how a patient deals with life as someone with kidney failure, including the stress (psycho), the physical pain and discomfort (bio) and how this impacts their social circle (social).
@@arvinpillai681 you are bae for typing this so true
@@arvinpillai681 Pretty mistaken.
@@arvinpillai681didn't need Foucault to figure that one out. You're wrong.
Doctors don’t even really know wtf is going on with us
Michel "Not like Other Girls" Foucalt. Also answers to CHOKE ME DADDY!
hhahahahhaahaha you are hilarious xD
Always thought public execution as inhumane, however execution conduct privately behind curtain is just us fooling ourselves it's none of our concern.
XerosXIII Imprisonment itself is worse than execution. At least we wouldn't be alive to sense anything...
Executions are on a steady decline worldwide but hitting someone with a life sentence is worse imo. you will still die for your crimes but the state won't kill you. Time will.
XerosXIII whats so inhumane about human execution human executions are meant to serve as examples so that other people dont get brave enough to do the te other guy got killed for
darrell goudeau
Notice: you have just objectified a human being....
John Smith think about it if your a ruler of an unstable nation how do you keep people in line? through fear, so you kill people who stir up trouble. i mean our lives really aren't worth anything whee somebody dies another person will take up that persons spot. like cogs in a machine when one wears they replace it.
It's really damn hilarious: a dude who grew up in a filthy rich family - which he hated - spent the large part of his life trying to explain why they suck. It only makes sense that other people from similar backgrounds would identify with his work so much, particularly among college students, who have a burning obsession with denying their own privileges to validate their own personal struggles as people.
MrPonitron Of course not: poor or rich, we're all just people and deserve respect all the same (even though some are intrinsically more fucked than others). I do however find it very amusing to see how hard college students try to build this aura of a pariah of society around themselves, simply in order to deflect the feeling of confronting history in all its ugliness and injustice, from a comfortable chair in an institution of higher education.
***** a very smart comment.
***** what they have to do? goin to the street or if not, whatever you say you will not make sense?, what the problem really with being a comfortable chair and all that stuff?
***** True, I've never found Foucault to be very convincing at all
***** If by "hilarious" you mean "tragic". His was not a happy life. I've studied him good amount, and he was certainly an individual who experienced quite a bit of depressive cognitive dissonance with his life situations, especially growing up. He is often described as feeling alienated due to his distaste of growing up in French society and his very UNPRIVILEGED status as a gay man of that era. It is ironic, if fact, that the concept of privilege is raised against him as a type of hypocrisy, as the idea of the power structures of "privilege", so readily used as acquisitions by people today, are derived, at least in part, from his very work. Still, genetic fallacies aside, there definitely is merit in recognizing just how many of the individuals showcased in these videos come from families of status. Moreover, Foucult's historical accuracy is famously questionable.
Amazingly great video, blows your brain out. It makes you think long after you watched it. A true marker of quality
Aaaah Meooo Deoooos como sou grata de ter tido a MELHOR professora que alguem poderia ter na vida. Me apresentou este GÊNIO
Not a single mention of the concepts of biopower or governmentality?
No, the far left post-modernist who evidently operates School of Life also did a video on Rousseau without even mentioning his state of nature "forced to be free' contract. Pathetic!
so we're all being brainwashed by youtube's agenda to make more idiot people who just follow trends without having any intention for learning and knowledge which results in more idiot youtubers making money through ad revenue due to low IQ followers whom being sold hopes and dreams every single minute
Because its reasonable to expect them to make a video to cover the entirety of a philosopher's work while still being concise enough to get people to watch it, and see why they should care.
@@KDC_1899 Alain de Botton is a far-left postmodernist... yeah lmao
Please could you guys create a section on poets?
He also wanted to get rid of "age of consent" laws. Sounds a little sus if you ask me.
So good to find educative fields here on TH-cam.
Hi Alain.
I've just read Siddhartha and between Hesse and yourself I think you've given me a beautiful key to unpicking an argument in my History dissertation. I'll try and outline the idea below when I have a more structured formulation.
I adore the School of Life project. I have been a big fan since I read The Art of Travel, picked off by a younger me, preparing for his first sole journey. I recommend these videos to every one I know (you have made reading Goethe a joy, Weber less of a mystery, and failure less daunting). Watching these videos together with a friend always leads to the most wonderful and entertaining discussions. I love how easy you make what I feared to be dusty academic spheres that much more engaging, relevant, and worthy of one's consideration.
On a more personal note, I have come back from a family funeral just yesterday. Over the past month, I have been watching many videos from your channel. I believe a direct result of that to be that I developed an outlook, no less compassionate (rather more so), that helped me deal with the situation, simply in a 'better' way... words, somewhat amusingly after reading Siddhartha, fail me at 03:59.
I may only wish that this channel may keep your inspiring and consoling vision at its heart and that you may find some worth in my sincere appreciation of your ongoing work.
Matthew Wilcock
(That being my first TH-cam comment, I may have been carried away.)
true,
I would love a video on Maurice Merleau-Ponty. There isn't a lot of accessible information on his philosophy and it's pretty interesting. Rarely do I encounter people who know who he is, which I think is unfortunate.
Keep up the great work! This channel is wonderful.
Nicely done. Remarkable introduction given the brevity. I appreciate the inclusion of the biographical details (that Foucault would likely have preferred omitted!). My one criticism is that Foucault is presented as making ethical cases, whereas he goes to lengths to avoid or problematize judgements of mores (he was and is in fact often criticized as a relativist). His perspectival quasi-relativism is an important feature of the "postmodern turn" to which Foucault contributed. This comes through in Foucault's very interesting style of writing and point of view, which deserves to be reflected in how his works are described, even in a short introduction like this.
In defense of how he is presented in this video, it's fair to say that the impact of Foucault includes how his "archeologies" have informed liberation movements and critiques of institutions, which has meant that many citations of Foucault lend them a more ethical slant than appears in his original work.
Yeah and linking him to anarchism and making him a marxist is either erroneous or an oversimplification too! Great work though.
@@marclerenard7531 Yeah, that remark in the beginning about Foucault's goal being the bringing in of an "anarchist marxist utopia" (?) doesn't sound like someone who has read Foucault. He had his flirtations with Moaists in 68 and maybe Althussier's structural marxism when he was younger but that seemed more faddish than anything. If anything he was criticized from the left for NOT being clearly aligned with those or any positive ideologies.
you really sound like someone who knows what hes talking about, nice
He's garbage. A million more words will not change this.
"Guy uses history for best sex." -Foucault in a nutshell.
Top notch video. I went through the entire range of emotions from aversion to empathy and dismissive to accepting. I like how ya'll shared his history as a counterpoint to his ideas. It really made me consciously examine my own thoughts to the ideas raised.
On the whole I think we could learn a lot from looking at how things were in the past and contrasting them to the reality we face today. The struggle those is going to be to remember that history is always biased. Not always in a deliberate manner but we do see the world in terms of our own perspective. For example while we may infer from history that the mentally ill were well treated we are only able to measure their treatment from the accounts of the people living at that time.
Thanks for sharing these ideas and the history surrounding them I feel like I gain so much from each of your videos.
Thank you so much. Your video helped me alot with understandig for Foucaults work, for my media- and culturalstudies here in Germany.
Thanks! This is the most intriguing academic content I've ever seen and it really helps me understand the school's thought.
6:28 It's called Hentai, and it's art.
The Office!!
Suzumiya Sama, whatever you say it is, it is
@Christopher Hinks it is messed up, but its sexy
Wibu?
Dear School of Life,
May you please make a video on Bertrand Russell please?
Incredible research. Thanks School of Life.
Thank you. Love this video. Great intellectual content.
Thanks for explaining it in a simple way. You helped me for my exam.
Foucault didn't care about being accurate about his understanding of history? And yet he bases his philosophy on looking back at history and learning from it?
How is this admirable? Shouldn't we hold this man to a higher standard if we are going to study him? - - - Foucault reading himself: "I don't really care if I understand Foucault and what he has to say. I really just want to take my own understanding of him and do whatever the hell I want with it to justify my view of the world.
When a leader misunderstands history and interprets it to his/her ends, its called tyranny and propaganda. When a modern philosopher does it, its called . . . liberation?
Daniel Tantanella Exactly what I find problematic with Philosophy.
To build any good thesis paper, you need solid, accurate arguments. Yet, we seem to not really care about that in philosophy
The *entire field of philosophy* has no interest in solid, accurate arguments? suuuuuure
I believe that part was a criticism of historians on Foucault. He himself didn't think it was inaccurate and if anything he felt historians misunderstood him! Also Foucault valued looking for innovations in areas from the past and learning from their good ideas, in that sense, context is accurate and the idea is better for us than knowing for instance, the exact date of an ideas conception. Also, when leaders do this, its of course language that is used for the sake of power--as foucault discusses. Foucault wasn't in the position of power obviously so his aims aren't really fueled bt anything other than maybe drugs if you count his expierence with that.
Yes, I agree with the part about philosophers taking whatever messages they like from history to do as they please. However, I do agree that things like names and dates aren’t the important parts of history. Instead, the abstractions and patterns in human behavior are important, for they allow you to forecast the future and truly learn from it.
PinguThePenguin You are being an absolute dumbass and clearly can not grasp the meaning of philosophy.
So happy I discovered your channel !
A succinct, concise analysis of a colossal figure in continental philosophy. Great video!
He was a pedophile
Thank you for making this video! I have been studying Foucault for a bit now and it was so helpful to have the audio and visual components instead of just reading the words, it really helped it all click. Thank you!
Know your enemy, maggots Foucault.
Finally made it to the end of this playlist and can say it has helped me grow tremendously
Congrats on reaching top level human
I think it is useful to identify the influence of existentialism on Foucault's thinking, from his criticism of psychiatry and his rejection of psychoanalytic explanation to his concern with the the care of the self.
This video is so good very informative as well as crisp.. amazed
Thank you very much for this great video
Michel Foucault is my grand-grand father's uncle
And thank you so much for having helped 3 years ago when I was crumbling to learn French
How does this channel not have over 1 billion subscribers? Every video is so illuminating and informative and I am finding answers to questions that were so confusing. Bravo!!!!
I agree! They also showed sexuality in very interesting ways.
So informative indeed. Tiny detail is not present. His hobby was to rape kids and ,among his post modern degenerate predators, Signed a petition to the government, and pass a bill to legalize pedophilia and rape them legally when they turned 12-13.
Those are the champions of the soy bags. A group of rich white pedophiles. It's so rancid , because many of them talked about it publicly, and pushed for a bill so they can rape kids without worries.
Foucault advocated for pedophilia.
A good series given this digital form. It is distorting, neglectful and strange but then so are many contemporary assumptions.
7:04 The clouds look like croissants
They don't, it's just that you are hungry. Go buy the best croissant in the city!
@@Otokage007 but maybe the clouds in France have to look like croissants. They define themselves in hindsight.
@@75hilmar maybe the french made their croissants look like clouds
Hahaha nice catch
would've been nice if there was some mention of foucault's ideas on power which I think are particularly profound.
***** True, sorry, there was definitely mention of power. And not that I'm any expert on Foucault, but when reading History of Sexuality, I thought that his belief that 'power is not something that is acquired, seized, or shared, something that one holds on to or allows to slip away' but instead 'power is exercised from innumerable points'
MusicLover1029 was particularly interesting. Especially since I've always thought of power manifests itself top-down but really it exists in everyone.
***** Power comes from below...
***** The whole opening of History of Sexuality vol. 1 is the perfect distillation of his thought. Too bad he didn't get to finish it.
***** i second that. what about how power works: is it real or an illusion? also, nothing about the panopticon and surveillance? still, i thought you did a good job with a diverse thinker
I am astonished by the flow and aesthetic of the animations... its awesome, keep it up :)
This was fascinating. Thank you.
Thank you Mr Botton. Great video. Very informative.
Thank you so much for doing this video. Your channel deserves more viewers, I hope the best for you!
***** thank you so much for doing this video. Not only is this going to help me explain him but this shows how important his views are to today's modern day philosophers
I think all his philosophy was an act of rebellion.
More like attention whoring
Iconoclastic*
Or maybe a 'hip' hissy fit.
Rebellion a.k.a. childish tantrum.
Amused Outsider brilliant satire,good sir.
At 1:42 it's not a young Foucault but Lewis thornton powell.
Also, many people have pointed out he didn't want a marxist anarchist state.
And those are not exactly his view on mental illness because he acknoewledged that other views (less developped) of human health had different day-to-day consequences that for THAT time weren't bad. (Today of course, if we can treat the mentally ill we should but back then they couldn't so a less developped view of the causes of mental illness were helpful).
Foucault: existed
Teachers: H3 D1ed oF aiDS
To anyone interested Chomsky did a debate with Foucalt back in 1971, here's a link:
th-cam.com/video/3wfNl2L0Gf8/w-d-xo.html
Besides, when will we get a video on Chomsky, or doesn't School of Life cover anyone alive?
***** hahahahhahahah xD
Gothicfan51 Well the School of Life seems to be focusing more on Continental philosophers (bar Wittgenstein but who nonetheless was important for many of the Continental tradition) which is fine by me. But I would love to see a video on Chomsky, Kripke, and maybe Russell.
***** "We are very scared of living people - not really..."
Lol! But seriously, Chomsky would be an interesting topic. There's certainly plenty to cover there, but it's a little disjointed, from his language theories (which I am skeptical about) and psychological theories to his politics and deconstruction of media imagery and storylines... and more as well.
But every time I see someone requesting "please do one on so-and-so" I usually think, "haven't they already done him?" Sometimes you have and the fellow missed it; but often I think I imagine that you have and I'm wrong.
I like the mix you're doing, and I don't think you'll run out of good topics or interesting thinkers very soon. I wouldn't try to steer your course at all.
(Which is not to say I don't have my favorite thinkers and writers. I expect you'll get around to some of them eventually... and the rest will just remain my little niche.)
***** making a feminist video just to piss of some stranger is what philosophy is to you ?!
***** I would actually like a positive video on first and second generation feminist philosophers, I am all for thoughts from different branches of human experience being exposed as long as there is room for critique and a fair exchange of ideas.
The only free market that I believe in is that of ideas, so I would not be pissed off if they did a video on that as long as they don't close down the comment section and forbid video responses.
It's funny how fast you can get addicted to this videos! Absolutely genius! May I have one humble suggestion? One video on the meaning of archaeology would sit well on your channel, please do it.
Cheers
***** I was thinking about a video on archaeology in general, not only Foucault's conception of it. Thanks for the good reply by the way, will look forward for your videos.
Cheers
I love these videos.. So much knowledge! Yuss!!!
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
# Haruki Murakami
Especially if there is a poorly-defined yet attractive woman in the next room, doing something enigmatic and sexy.
Please make one for Gilles Deleuze! Your content is brilliant, thank you!!
I'd be really interested and appreciative on a video about Thomas Hobbes.
My dear "The School of Life" Your videos are certainly interesting for the set of philosophers you propose ... but at the same time your videos are great! Congratulations for the work.
Nice presentation and nice visuals :) i was researching on found this video
Why is there no mention of him being the inventor of discourse analysis. I think this is what he is most know for so why did you not mention this aspect?
Maybe because no one gives a shit about that or anything else about this perv.
@@DANVIIL this is a video about him with 2.6 million views
@@DANVIIL including you
Because TH-cam :/
He is probably the most unconvincing philosopher in the whole series yet, at least for me.
Chino Scorzeze Maybe, you're*
joe jarden No, just in these philosopher series of videos. I haven't read any of his works, and I am guessing there's a lot more to him that just this.
Saarth Jauhari Agreed.
***** I found it unconvincing because some of his ideas like criticism of modern medicine or academics and even how history is taught, seem rather odd or even anti-progressive. Doesn't history have any other value than as a utility to guide us in the future? Isn't there curiosity and wonderment about past events?
I can see his point in somethings like treatment of 'special' people, and probably the modern medicinal methods often lead to abuse of these methods stunting other qualities such people might have (also seems like something Nietzsche would get behind) , but a well informed use of these methods seems to me a more viable option than to do away with them and go back to primitive methods.
I agree about some things being quite sinisterly coercive like the justice/prison system and even some forms of capitalism and advertisement.
***** And i'd rather have my doctor look at me inhumanely, and measure my performance like I was a machine and treat me as such. Obviously this has to be limited to his profession, outside the clinic/hospital I would want the doctor to ideally see me just as a human.
We don't expect accountants to be extremely stingy or unwasteful in their personal lives as long they don't mismanage the finances of the organization they're working in :P
Muito boa a série do canal! E tem legendas em português.
I hope this is at least the only thing they are doing right in this channel, this kind of informative videos and that they are not biased.
When you use your power-knowledge to oppress Tunisian children.
A perfect illustration of his theories are nothing but an justification for his degeneracy. In fact, I believe the reason why he is so popular among left wing is largely based on his advocacy of no rules no restrictions in life, rather than intended to help the disadvantaged. It takes a real man to help the disadvantaged in society and I believe most people are not up to standard to do so.
imagine being stupid to the point of believing that a right-wing dude kept that secret for 40 years and only released the truth in an interview to speak ill of his work
@@iHKG0 so i’m going to assume you’ve never read any of his work, but you’re very upset at what other people said he said lmao
Oooof
@@josbaljosbal imagine going line by line through the comments to defend a dead child abuser from accountability. It’s not hard to figure out... an insane person who obsesses over expressing his power and sexuality ends up exerting his power to sexually abuse others, in this case, young children.
I believe Foucault is the only philosopher you have discussed with whom I don't agree on almost anything.
But nice video nonetheless!
Also, please make a video about Ayn Rand and objectivism as a whole.
PJ im not alone
phew!
i actually agree with the last part but everything else i cant agree with.
Norbury 54 Foucault, if nothing else, offers a method to deconstruct taken-for-granted understandings of the present time. Other than that, though, I would argue he provides incredibly valuable insight into the workings of power, knowledge and discourse.
You seem to misunderstand the purpose of deconstruction - to advance to new and better ways of doing things, just like you claim to support, by showing the old is not the natural or inevitable state of things. Obviously this doesn't mean we should go tearing down every single belief we possess, but in some instances this is extremely valuable.
For instance, one possible application is picking apart the problem representations that enable certain policy decisions through a Foucauldian discourse analysis. This can lead to different and better courses of action, rather than having people believe that the proposed way is the only way to think about a certain issue. To think that Foucault is purely about bringing old ways to the forefront is to miss the broader point of his work, which is to do with the workings of power and knowledge. History is used to show the development of certain discourses that alter the way we perceive certain aspects of the world.
really thankful to all these videos. the complexity of studying philosophy is reduced. thank you! but I am suggesting to make videos of legendary writers in literature like faulkner, marquez, and more especially those who won the Nobel Prize in Litt
I wrote about Foucault last project "The Care of The Self" for my undergraduate study in philosophy and realize how great his contribution in philosophy study. 👍
Can I have a read please?
@@DrFurb sure, but fyi its written in indonesian? If you want i can send it to you
@@mariusseran9911 halo! can i also have a read please?
You had me at 3:50 "They were revered in many circles and were allowed to wander freely..." Picture... I literally laughed😂
Please also consider introducing Gilles Deleuze, who was a huge influence.--
Your audience would surely be mesmerized by his radical metaphysics (i.e. that difference is ontologically prior to identity).
Even Foucault believed that "perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian."
Another enabler of child abuse
What about a video on Voltaire or Descartes? Also great video, but you guys always put out great videos.
there are videos about both on this channel
Another great video ! Always richer after your videos 🙏
foucault was into gay bdsm?? iconic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSM
I'm your 69th like
he started his whole philosophy just to rebel against people who said gay was wrong. Don't misunderstand his philosophy as him caring about the less privileged.
he was into young boys as well
Seems to me that most of those who have commented are either missing the point, or trying to showboat and show off their learning, or even to stake their claim to be noticed as philosophers them selves. These short videos are an introduction to something that many will go on to read in more depth. Surely this better then the alternative. Seems to me a few heads need to be removed from a few backsides.
this series is awesome! I LOVE learning :)
Hey, The School of Life. Great work. Could you make a video about Ernst Cassirer? Thank´s
What about when he said knowledge and power are feedback looped.
Muchas gracias por éste hermoso video!
I love the realization sources I find on my own years ago are the same sources college professors recommend me to.
Seems like you've had your share of good professors then
Grateful for the Portuguese subtitles
"He still maintains a following among students in the prosperous corners of the world". Enough said.
I was excited about this video because of the potential to use it as an
introduction in class. Based on my extensive Foucault research I feel
that the video emphasizes too much Foucault as an advocate for specific times and programs which I don't really see in any of his works. Did anyone else have the same problem? I guess that I hoped this video would be good but I found it an extreme disappointment compared to other "I am going to explain all relevant points about something while talking fast" style videos that exist now. Did anyone else have the same problems? No discussion of discourse, archaeology, the order of things, his later speeches on governmentality (which is what most modern foucault scholars research now), biopolitics, and his political persecution in multiple countries. This video even ignores any discussion of his rivals like Baudrillard and Chomsky (amongst others). I just don't get it, this video sucks, even for what is intended to be an oral wikipedia page.
+Todd Callais you are definitely right. It's not in his works. Some people read him like that, but it's a mistake. Maybe because people tend to skip the interviews and articles and read only the books. But he does not give his opinions in his books.
This video is very mistaken, in my opinion. I study Foucault for 7 years now and read a lot about him.
I wouldn't use it in class.
Absolutely. My understanding of Foucault are three-fold:
1) He is not, and never was a Marxist. Said so himself too many times. People just have a hard time dissociating him from other intellectuals in the era. He was critical of many power structures, as Marxists are as well, but that doesn't make him a Marxist.
2) His genealogies helped him develop his methodology which is what he is most famous for and why he continues to be taught: looking at how power operates. I only wish people that hated on him so much would read Archeology of Knowledge, which they never do because 1) they don't understand it and 2) they are so hell-bent on pigeonholing him with the other post-modernist 'Marxists'.
3) Because of his methodology and the central tenet that power is not 'possessed' by anyone but is 'exercised' by all, his later and unfinished works on ethics began to explore how an individual could exercise their own power to essentially express themselves in a free society. I actually find this the most brilliant and relevant to the American dream because it could be seen to help people develop and use their own personal power (that's my interpretation anyway).
All in all, I was incredibly disappointed with this video and its, clearly biased, leanings towards Foucault. It doesn't surprise me when you see the other kinds of content (not philosopher related) it posts.
Well Foucault also sucks so in that regard the video suits him.
I'm so glad some one pointed this out. This video made me quite angry because I just see a sea of people in the comments commenting on how he's an sjw and how they dislike him when the info they are given is largely skewed or misunderstood.
Just ordered his first book after watching this video. I was just finishing up my law thesis on rights of mentally ill patients in Europe, so the timing couldn't have been better. Can't wait to read his work.
Luv ur channel....have been following since the beginning! Its both entertaining as well as educational ^_^ #LearningMadeEasier
Make a great and rich presentation of accurate information thank you
Please, considere making a video about Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.
I struggled with Foucault 15 years ago while earning my doctorate. I see this video and I think, yes! Now I understand what this guy was trying to say/do. Thank you, School of Life!
You have omitted both The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge, my two favourite works of Foucault
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Archaeology_of_Knowledge
2021 and still learning
'Academic historians have tended to hate Foucault's work'. This is a sweeping, reductive generalisation. Many scholars have questioned the accuracy of Foucault's historical statements (he was sceptical of facts), questioned his methodology and conclusions, and yet still expressed admiration for his work and insights, acknowledging their intellectual debt to Foucault and his disciples. Certainly historians questioned Foucault, as he questioned so many others, and found flaws in his work, but this does not mean that they 'hated' it or him. Many historians have found much to admire in his flawed masterpieces.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Everything he wrote was baseless. He ignored and bent history to fit his ideology. Anyone who praises him is as deluded as he is.
+A Koala with Shades Another sweeping, reductive generalisation. I completely disagree.
+Alessio Faiella Thanks but I wasn't trying to be funny.
Al Ghazali, Ibn Sina, Ibn Batutta
Buah Cempedak they are not philosophers
Ibnu Khaldun
Gibran Khalil Gibran would be very intresting!
Interesujące bardzo... ✨
I know this is a strange question... but on what program do you achieve this style of video collage?