Hello and welcome to Overthink.

The podcast where two philosophers put ideas in dialogue with everyday life.

I'm Dr. Ellie Anderson.

And I'm Dr. David Peña Guzman.

Today we're doing a new kind of episode.

This is our first of this series and we're super excited to introduce it.

David and I have decided to periodically we're aiming for once every four episodes, do a deep dive into one particular text.

We know you guys love when we do things like this on our YouTube channel.

And we thought that it would be really nice to also share that with the podcast.

For us, too, it's fun because this is what we do when we teach text.

You know, we usually rather than teaching a topic like we do on overthink and synthesize various

texts or aspects of a topic through different pieces of research, just focusing on one particular text.

And we're hoping that this offers a kind of gateway into some text that might otherwise

be challenging to read on your own from two professors, which isn't to say that we're always,

you know, going to be able to cover every angle of a text. In fact, we're never going to be

able to cover every angle of a text, but just sort of a intro style conversation to one particular

friendly chat book or article.

Yeah, and we're going to be calling these episodes a closer look.

So for our first closer look episode, we've selected Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, which is a book that both of us have read. We have been readers of Foucault for a long time. I, as some of you might know, wrote my dissertation on Foucault back in the day. Yes. But not on the sexuality stuff, sadly. Yeah. And let me just clear right, David. When you say we both have read it, we won't ever come to a closer look episode without having read the text. But I take you, I take you to mean that we had already read it. Yeah. Previously. Multiple times. Yeah. I mean, there's like the seventh time I read this book at the very least. Yeah. And so, yeah, that's what I mean. Whereas sometimes, like, we might use it as an opportunity to read something that we haven't read before.

Generally. I read this book at the very least. Yeah. And so, yeah, that's what I mean. Whereas sometimes, like, we might use it as an opportunity to read something that we haven't read before. Generally speaking, it will be things that we have read in the past and perhaps even teach regularly. Yeah. This is one example of that. Yeah. And I think you've taught this, right? I teach it regularly. Yeah. I have taught it as well, along with the other books in the series.

And so, yeah, we're beginning with Foucault, who is a crowd favorite.

And so we're excited to talk about this book, which is his interpretation of the history of sexuality in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries.

...