she is very good at making people understand and a very connective and organised lecturer...she should give more lectures on earlier philosophers .....from the beginnning
Highly captivating and productive lecture. I adore Prof. Maitrayee Chaudhuri's pace and clarity while teaching. Seriously, we lack such a good teacher for Sociology in India. Thank you Professor and the Consortium for Educational Communication for such an informative lecture.
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She is quite good at Foucault but how does that Make Foucault unique it is the continuation of Marxist materialistic dialectic . Foucault excels in bringing forth the culmination of Frankfurt school and phenomenologists into discussing power but in a way he regresses from Nietzsche where power was an ontological reality . What we need phenomenologically to study the first person person understanding of domination and submission something Hegel started but nobody took over. Unfortunately Hegel also deviated from the notion of the self that is dialectical so where there is a slave or a master one is encapsulated in the other. The ontological backup is not there who is this being prior to its becoming dies the subject want to be oppressed so it wants to overcome it . Foucault as Camus or Kafka has tacitly accepted the docile human even the powerful one . The west cannot seem to get over its history of philosophy that is primarily theology based where “the original sin” is never discarded whether it is Heidegger, Sartre or Adorno or Foucault that is why there is never a suggestion to study the self
"we are the products of discourse. Power dosen't solely come from Central institutions it is present everywhere. To an extent, Power determines our present thoughts, decisions...."
Excellent lecture. Thank you! Do you have any thoughts on Foucault and other Postmodernist thinkers relative to traditional Hindu philosophies? I would be most interested!
Thank you very much for this enlightening lecture. I discovered this channel by sheer chance and am very happy that I did Ma'am isn't it foucoult's idea of all pervading, hidden power not what is called socialization. We accept peer pressure, pressure of prevalent fashion, ideologies , mannerisms etc etc ? I will be extremely grateful if the difference is made clear to me
He describes power of two levels: Empirical and theoretical. Empirical comprises three types: sovereign, disciplinary and bio power. In theoretical power, he illustrates the features, characteristics of power and its operation. Force relation is spread throughout the society and can only be seen in interplay.
Never separate a man's ideas from his personnal life. (Translation of an article recently published in a French influencial magazine.) Foucault's dark past in Tunisia resurfaces. "Ignoble", "morally hideous", Guy Sorman's words are unequivocal when he talks to the Sunday Times, but also on France 5, about the acts of Michel Foucault which he would have witnessed. The events date back to the late 1960s, when the philosopher was living in Tunisia. At the time, the essayist Guy Sorman, now 77, was spending Easter holidays there, in the village of Sidi Bou Saïd, a northern suburb of Tunis, where Michel Foucault had taken up residence. There were children of 8, 9, 10 years old, who ran after him," he says. He would throw money at them and say, 'See you at 10pm at the usual place'. That place, according to Guy Sorman, was the village cemetery. He had sex here, on the graves, with young boys," the essayist continues. The question of their consent was not even raised. He would never have dared to do that in France, there is a colonialist dimension to it, a white imperialism. Today, Guy Sorman says he regrets not having denounced Michel Foucault's "despicable" and "morally hideous" acts to the police or the press. "I know who Foucault was In his Dictionnaire du Bullshit, which has just been published, Guy Sorman mentions these accusations for the first time. In a promotion on the set of France 5 a few weeks ago, he says: "What Foucault was doing with young children in Tunisia, what I saw and what I reproached myself for not having denounced at the time, leads me, not to reject his work, but to look at it with a different eye. These are perfectly despicable things with young children, things of extreme moral ugliness. I reread Foucault, but I know who Foucault is, this double view is essential. He confirmed this to the Sunday Times. "Foucault should not be 'cancelled'. I have great admiration for his work, I'm not inviting anyone to burn his books, just to understand the truth about him, and how he and some philosophers used their arguments to justify their passions and desires. He thought it allowed him to do whatever he wanted. Sorman is alluding here to "cancel culture", also known as "woke culture" from the United States, where an eradicative current that is now very vocal calls for the wiping from the map and from history, often in retrospect, of any author of misogynistic, racist or reactionary behaviour. Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher who was born on 15 October 1926 in Poitiers and died on 25 June 1984 in Paris 13e. He is known for his criticism of social institutions, mainly psychiatry, medicine and the prison system, and for his ideas and developments on the history of sexuality, his general theories about power and the complex relationship between power and knowledge. While his work is often referred to as post-modernist or post-structuralist by contemporary commentators and critics. Ironically, critics of Woke thought believe that it is precisely post-modernism that has ultimately given rise to cancel culture as we know it today.
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Foucault seems outdated in terms of understanding the ways oppression operates through social privilege, laws and internalized compliance. I would guess he would appeal to individualists and libertarians and maybe New Age thought that postulates "it is possible to create your own reality." I am enjoying all your lectures while in the Pacific Northwest on pandemic lock-down.
Foucault and Derrida are two of the most destructive and nihilistic philosophers of our time and will allow for every perversion, violence and blasphemy of all kinds. Foucault didn’t see any reason why people shouldn’t have sex with children or animals for example because everything is relative. He would have embraced the new trans theory, childism, anarchy etc. He was an awful scholar who built a philosophy to justify his own perversions, his own love of S&M, his homosexuality, his drug taking, self-harm, his desire for a suicidal orgy, his love of criminality, violence and death. Embrace him at your peril!
Hello. Have you read him properly, which all works you read to draw this conclusion? I'm newly introduced to this man's theory in university and I haven't started yet but your comment seems very interesting
Nietzsche ended up a catatonic madman, beyond good and evil, but does that mean that his writings are useless or to be censored ? No one is suggesting an embrace of Foucalt, just an awareness of the usefulness of his critiques of power institutions. I do not like either man but I recognize that they had some very true insights that can be used to improve society. You are unhealthily obsessed with Foucalt's personal life and personal opinions. You can critique him without simply dismissing his works because of his perversions.
