Thank you so much for this. I am a visual learner, so watching videos is easier for me to understand than dragging through a textbook. I have a deeper grasp on Foucault's thinking now, and I appreciate these videos! Please keep up the great work!
Perfect.... finally!! wish I could study under you. Foucault's writings should be required reading for anyone looking to enter the public political sphere.
@@analogalien651 Jesus dude, seriously? Have you not read up on Foucault's love of "children"? Especially little boys? The guy was smart but he was also a depraved wack job.
This and your companion vid on power and knowledge lay out foucault’s complex ideas clearly and directly. Not an easy job, in such a limited space. Thanks for your work.
Very nice exposition of this work by Foucault. I also found The Birth of the Clinic to be a real eye-opener. Have you a discussion of The Archaeology of Knowledge?
this is a wonderful summary of the book! very useful to be able to show people to introduce the ideas without pleading with them to read it lol. thank you
Thank you very much! Foucault I found was unusually difficult to understand and I needed significant help and explanation outside just reading his writings.
@@GreatBooksProf Yes sir I'm in contemporary theory as a 3rd year, I have an excellent teacher but being in an online only class leaves something to be desired. Having an additional perspective on and explanation of the material is very helpful Thank you again!
Hey Professor! Great video! In my opinion I think that you should’ve mentioned the importance and impact that Bentham’s Panopticon has had in other institutions such as hospitals, schools and workplaces. Also the relationship between delinquency and the prison system. The factory of delinquency. Of course the video might be too long then, but it’s worth mentioning.
Hy, thanks for the video. I was searching for focault contributions, but since many of his article requires subscription, do you have any idea where i can have access to his articles? It would be much helpful. :)
Hey Prof, I am currently struggling to find modern analysis of Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Nations?" thesis for my 4th year paper. In my essay, I am discussing other theories of the time, including Fukuyama, and providing data and criticisms mostly levied at the theory in the early to mid-2000s. I would appreciate some additional perspectives on this topic. I'll be done with the paper soon lol, but I think there is a lack of modern analysis of the theory. I keep seeing many Indian youtube online educators talking about it, but I can't seem to find any in English within the past 4 years.
Thank you so much for this video. I am brazillian and was abble to understand everythind you said, your diccion is relly refined but easy to understand. Your videos helps me a lot in my University works, so Thanks, keep going
Thank you for the great video! We read parts of Foucault‘s works in our Cultural Studies class and I found them really fascinating. (Also your videos got me interested in Shakespeare and so I ended up buying a collection of his works.)
Thanks Lukas! I find Foucault really fascinating (and really frustrating!) too. 😂 Glad to hear you're taking an interest in Shakespeare. He's my all-time favourite writer. His plays can be a challenge to read too, but I've learned more from his works than I have from anything else I've read.
Do you have a recommendation for a new Shakespeare reader? So far I’ve read Macbeth (thoroughly enjoyed it) and Romeo and Juliet. I have to say that I quite enjoy the way his plays are written. For me personally it is just a joy to read older English literature. Oh, and I somehow have a feeling that your Shakespeare recommendation won’t be Tempest ;)
@@LudwigZand I would suggest Twelfth Night, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Julius Caesar. Good places to start and great plays. You can skip The Tempest for now! 😆
I have trouble in understanding the meaning of the sentence“The soul is the prison of the body” in this book.Do you care to explain it for me?Appreciate it.
Hoping that you post a video about Jacques Derrida Deconstruction Theory☺. I really enjoy your video because you explained well. I'm glad that i find your youtube channel it helps me a lot☺
Sorry, my Pop (not a philosopher) said *"We put criminals in prison to keep them away from the law abiding citizens."* I think Foucault overthought this point.
06:40: They are kind of "extended selfishness" (extended because the single apparatchik is not benefited by me being productive) and thus care about my mental health not for my own sake but for that of the state. However, that's great because it means that my well- being is useful and therefore it doesn't take "edel, hilfreich und gut" (Schiller) people to maintain it which is a flimsy base to live on.
What's wrong with productivity? Foucalt gave us argument, that we not only don't need democracy to have functional social structure, but also that we never had it really.
I somewhat disagree. The main point is that only those in power, whether it be a government or a church, for example, have given them selves the sole authority to punish. When you punish outside of those power brokers, then you have committed an unlawful act, according to those in power. It’s a form of extreme subjugation that all societies have endured under the lie that it is done in order to keep society together. However, it is done to keep the power with the powerful. Whether that punishment be torture and death or the penitentiary system.
That method although brutal was necessary, if they just sent that person in a jail cell to live comfortably like they do in prisons in Norway people might kill the king just to escape poverty. Everything is part of the times, humans were poor and brutal then so the methods of punishment needed to leave a scar in the public eye so that didn't happen again.
Is it me or are modernist like Foucault just pointing at the change without any answers? ... How can the sovereign not exist? Is a cook no longer to cook?...:) Thanks for the videos.
Listening to the buzz around Foucault is kinda sad. What do we have here: * Things were different in the past... so we can change them in the future (lol) * We've moved from punishing the body to the soul. But have we really? Isn't pushing the body a way of punishing the soul. As in: it is really going to hurt. My guess is that missing from the analysis is: * The timelessness of mental illnesses. * How cultural notions of punishment interplay with the sociobiological role of punishment. The last is heresy, because Foucault is only popular because he's grist for relativists. Question: Is there *ANYTHING* Foucault wrote about that wasn't said more clearly by previous scholars? Durkheim anyone?
@@convenientEstelle mental illness is part of natural human variation. The video talks about mental illness at about 6:30. The video goes wrong here, because its debatable whether mental health talk really has anything to do with mental health at all, and isn't merely the cultural equivalent of SJGould's spandrel, but for the social dynamics of team building and status seeking.
@@BlackBeltMonkeySong even with your precision of it being part of "natural human variation", I struggle to see how someone could call it "timeless". Mental illness is a construct. It's a way of interpreting individuals' behaviors. It doesn't mean that those behaviors aren't real, but it also doesn't point to anything else than the interpretation.
@@BlackBeltMonkeySong Sorry, I think I was too vague and not descriptive enough. By constructing a mental illness, one tries to assign a mental construction to a behavioral pattern, by trying to reconstruct parts of the patients' mind outside of its body (still from behavioral patterns) to be analyzed as a thing in itself, the "mental illness". So for the hunter example, one could try to construct a "hunter's mind" to try to explain the behaviors and habits of a hunter hunting, killing, and eating animals. So what determines what is an illness?
