Michel Foucault "Madness & Civilization" (First Half)

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Link to Podcast site (new episodes added daily): theoretician.podbean.com/
Link to Patreon (for those whom can afford it): / theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I take a stab at one of Foucault's first texts, "Madness & Civilization." In it he tries to disturb everything we know about madness and its treatment--the positivist assumptions about its coming into realization; the treatments believed to be therapeutic; and the influences behind the construction of asylums.

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27 июл 2024

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@pipersolanas3322 3 года назад

This is important work you're doing David. I'm thankful for your channel.

@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 2 года назад

IKR? Instead of another video of someone teaching you how to play a Beatle song wrong, actual substantive and intellectual stimulation, I subscribed

@Deliriummary 2 года назад

Damn man your channel is by farrrr the BEST on the whole RU-vid

@enlightenedanalysis1071 9 месяцев назад

Many thanks David for this video/podcast. I enjoyed listening to your interpretation and analysis of Foucault’s work. Looking forward to listening to your other videos like this. 😊cheers

@Marcin_Pawlik 5 лет назад

I tried reading Madness & Civillization and the thing you mentioned, where it's often unclear when it is in fact Foulcault talking and when he is "quouting", caused me a lot of trouble. I haven't finished reading it, but I think i might give it another go soon. Your podcast helps me quite a lot, especially your series on Baudrillard, as a starting point for further reading. Thank you for that.

@TheoryPhilosophy 5 лет назад

Happy it hear it! And yes Foucault can be inaccessible at times

@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 2 года назад

I read this entire book and it was incomprehensible to me

@catalina.coanda 2 месяца назад

I'm also having a hard time with it, but I think I'm getting the essentials

@ollotheollo 11 месяцев назад

Amazing, thank you very much

@prajwalprasad3249 4 года назад

This helped ! Thank you

@TheoryPhilosophy 4 года назад

Happy to hear it!

@nozakatable 3 месяца назад

hey, this episode was how i first found your channel and i'm really thankful for your work! i have a question on vintage edition of the book though; couldn't find any information elsewehere. why is the book is 300ish pages when the original book, as far as i know, is around 800 pages? thank you

@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 2 года назад

Would you consider making videos for advanced readers? That isn’t under the idea that ideas are for everyone, but your genuine takes on these texts? Or are they the same?

@trindrf4901 5 лет назад

Is the translation of the unabridged/original ver of this book titled "history of madness" worth more than this one or is it more or less the same ?

@TheoryPhilosophy 5 лет назад

I'm not too sure as I've never read it nor seen it available anywhere. My guessing intuition says yes, but I can't say for sure :/

@trindrf4901 5 лет назад

@@TheoryPhilosophy yeah i guess i have to read that one since madness & civilization has always been criticized for its historiography and yet that's not even half of the original unabridged text, since history of madness is apparently almost 800 pages long and only fully been translated to english on 2006, that seems like where the problem lies. anyways good work as always, still patiently waiting for another chapter/plateau of d&g's a thousand plateaus tho :\

@TheoryPhilosophy 5 лет назад

Hahah Ya I've gotta get that book done--maybe that's what I'll be working on next.

@punkpoetry 3 года назад

@@trindrf4901 I wouldn't waste the time on the abridged version: if you go into the trouble of reading this beautiful and challenging book, grab the real deal (in the French it's just under 700 pages). One of my professors spent a lot of time carefully examining the English translations of Foucault after being baffled by some of the misconceptions shown by his US colleagues, and said they were not very good; hopefully things have changed since he undertook that thankless task, I wouldn't know. MF's historiography would probably remain iffy whatever version you read, but he was a very great thinker and writer nevertheless!

@umpoucodefilosofia6781 5 лет назад

interesting new intro music choice

@TheoryPhilosophy 5 лет назад

Lol it is what my creative faculties produced with little input from my self.

@smkxodnwbwkdns8369 2 года назад

Chomsky once told me that Foucault told him that he would purposely write incomprehensible passages as that would secure a positive reception in Paris as no one wanted to appear as intellectually inferior as to not understand people considered geniuses, so instead of criticizing incomprehensible writing where they have to impose that idea, they would praise it rather superficially .

@ahmadmasood4148 Год назад

you met chomsky????

@gavinyoung-philosophy Месяц назад

Sounds like you’re som anti postmodernist troll doing a bad impersonation of the infamous paper submission scandal preceding the Sokal/Brickmont collaboration.

$@thisisfractopia$

@thisisfractopia 5 лет назад

New intro theme, cool!

@charlieintheclouds 3 месяца назад

🙏

@maria9567 Год назад

Nice kitty “mrrrrewp” comment on chapter 4.

@MrStrocube 22 дня назад

I had to read this shit in grad school. Could never do that now, and thankfully I don’t have to, ugh. This dude was insufferable, and Derrida was even worse.

@charlesknause977 3 года назад

The history of thought indicates that humans.can use logic and pseudo reasoning to justify their own communal sadism and cruelty out group members

@Johnconno 3 года назад

Lepers have always been considered Holy.

@abcrane 2 года назад

today, they are considered criminals. Suspects Under Investigation, literally, officially, what they are called during this current "crisis." At certain official hospitals.