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Philosophize This!

Episode #121 ... Michel Foucault pt. 1

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.816.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today we begin talking about the work of Michel Foucault.

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Philosophized This. If you want to support the show and help keep it going

0:06.1

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0:11.1

Or you can go to www.philosophizedis.org and learn more about how you can contribute in other ways including but not limited to the Amazon banner

0:19.3

I hope you love the show today

0:21.8

So real quick just to clarify something

0:24.2

Towards the end of last episode I talked about doing a couple episodes on the late work of Vittgenstein and HiDigger

0:30.0

But based on the emails I received after releasing last episode it it seems clear that people don't really want to hear about it

0:36.7

They kind of want to just move on to postmodernism now

0:40.1

Personally, I think to fully understand postmodernism. It's absolutely crucial to understand this transition from logical positivism to the mid-20th century where there's more of a focus on

0:49.6

behaviorism and pragmatism

0:52.5

But look let's be honest here at the end of the day

0:54.3

I'm a dance and monkey that's doing episodes about what the majority of people want to hear about

0:58.4

Or else I go out of business so with that in mind today's episode is part one of a series on Michelle Foucault and

1:04.5

If you're at all confused about the context of these ideas and how they're being brought up

1:08.3

Send me an email. I'll respond to as many as I can but that said

1:12.3

If someone we're gonna write a short list of the quintessential postmodernist philosophers of what's meant when somebody says postmodernist philosopher

1:21.4

Foucault is definitely going to be on that list

1:23.6

But to some

1:25.2

relegating the work of Foucault and labeling it as merely being in the realm of philosophy doesn't really do him justice

1:31.2

Because his work often times moves into areas that have nothing to do with philosophy

1:35.9

To some you could easily refer to Foucault as a historian or a political theorist or a social commentator

1:42.6

Depending on what era of his life he wrote the book you're reading

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