Michel Foucault, The Subject And Power - Pastoral Power - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses key ideas from the work of the 20th century philosopher and historian, Michel Foucault, "The Subject and Power"

It focuses specifically on he type of power relations that he calls "pastoral power", including four main characteristics of it: orientation towards salvation; oblative and sacrificial exercise of power; focus upon the individual; aiming at to knowledge of the soul. Foucault also discusses how pastoral power shifts out of ecclesial settings into political and secular settings in modernity.

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