Michel Foucault - Truth, Power, and Sexuality [Ep.81]

Logos Podcast

English - November 07, 2022 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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Guys, on this week's episode, Logos takes on a hugely influential thinker of our times: Michel Foucault. Many people have not been exposed to Foucault by name, but they have been exposed to the language of 'Oppressor' Vs. 'Oppressed,' Institutionalized oppressors, Human de-constructivism, the need for a sexual revolution, the phrase "knowledge is power," and the sorts.

Foucault's philosophical spirit is indispensable to understanding our world today. Whether one agrees or disagrees with everything our culture proposes as socially beneficial, politically stable, or culturally acceptable, figures like Foucault are essential to understand the 'power' (to use Foucault's language) behind modern man's thought process. In one sense, his 'discourse' is employed all around us today.

We are not experts on Foucault, but we seek to give our audience a general scope of some of his works and basic ideas. To be abundantly clear, we are neither disciples nor promotors of Foucault. Still, we see him as a person whose hermeneutic provides a gateway by which the common person can engage with the forces possessing our friends and family.

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Some of the sources used in this episode:

[Primary sources of The Order Of Things, The Archaeology Of Knowledge, The Discourse On Language, and The History Of Sexuality]

http://commons.princeton.edu/shakespeares-language/wp-content/uploads/sites/41/2017/09/Foucault-The-Discourse-on-Language.pdf

http://individual.utoronto.ca/bmclean/hermeneutics/foucault_suppl/DOL_outline.htm

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/

https://www.vox.com/features/2019/11/11/18273141/postmodernism-donald-trump-lyotard-baudrillard

https://youtu.be/BBJTeNTZtGU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63_kAw3WmE&t=320s

https://youtu.be/Py_4NBfCDnU

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