It's funny, having learnt Foucault through a French university education in philosophy, that this Anglosaxon perspective completely omits 'Les mots et les choses', translated as 'The Order of Things' - in France, this is often seen among philosophers as the work that defined Foucault's approach. Read it and you understand the method and, of course, the madness in it, that he employed in his other works. For a documentary of only 40 minutes, I'm left wondering whether it wasn't simply the lure of the gory details that drove the film makers, rather than a desire to reveal the man, of whom such details are an integral part, but only one. And also, I would be of those who think the overarching influence of Nietzsche upon his thought should also be included. But a very enjoyable watch, thanks to the uploader.
Exactly. One of his most beautiful and instigating works. But do you really believe that the mind of the America academia who has numerous suspicious "thinkers" idolized can understand "Les Mots er le Choses"? "Ceci n'est pas un pipe. :)
"The madness of desire, insane murders, the most unreasonable passions - all are wisdom since they are a part of the order of nature. Everything that morality and religion, everything that a clumsy society has stifled in man, revives in the castle of murders. There man is finally attuned to his own nature." --Michael Focault, 'Madness and Civilization'
Good quote. I have been attracted by Taoism, for instance, which has an appeal to a natural order. The natural order would include madness of desire, insanity, murder, unreasonable passions, but they depend on circumstances. For instance, a murder would be in response to circumstances, according to the Taoist view. To commit a murder simply for the fun of it, would not be according to nature. Water and how it behaves is usually the image used to teach about the Tao or the Way. Insanity is a special case, however, but it could be compared to cancer. If both these conditions are untreatable, then there isn't much we can do. How long should the family care for the insane person? When do they turn over their responsibility to the state? This calculation what be a practical one, not simply an emotional one, for the Taoist.
Quoting Madness and Civilization like that can say nothing about the thought of Focault. In the book he is channeling historical views on madness. Thus. The quote could be attributed to any period and any people filtered through the mind of Focault.
If one knew nothing of Foucault before watching this documentary, not much would have changed after watching it. This is all breadth and no depth - Foucault's legacy would have been better served if the makers of this documentary perhaps focused on his theories of sexuality, justice or class. Still, I guess this was watchable.
I would personally rather say his later inquiries about genealogy, parrhesia, the hermeneutics of the self etcetera. At least, is it is depth you're looking for.
Finally a documentary on a philosopher which looks not only at the biography, but makes a good effort to bring the ideas as well down to us commoners. Very good.
A doc focusing on the personal life of Foucault. In Foucault's eyes: could there possibly be anything less interesting--more loathesome? He would say this is completely missing the point, an approach pandering to temporal, personal details while caring little for ideas.
I have read and absorbed a lot of Foucault. A lot. And I did love this video. Just a few moments of cliche here and there, but so much value is in this please see it.
Foucault was a great thinker who pushed the boundaries of what is seen as mental illness...and all his experiments with drugs and eroticism etc are very fine when we look at what mental illness is and where it germinates. In fact the work of Stanislav Grof with LSD was exactly on the same lines and that is considered one of the most innovative projects in mental health. How mental health is defined as an outcome of spiritual emergences that can become spiritual emergencies, and how it can be harnessed is what Grof talked about with innumerable evidences of Shamans from the world over. And to those who do not understand about the spirit or mystical world of shamanism or the journey to the underworld, anyone who dares to push the boundaries of inquiry will only appear in-sane. I have my sympathies for those who have not reached that level of comprehension and who have utmost devotion to modern science and its verifiability, irrespective of how ethical it is or how ethically it creates mental illness out of human suffering. In case anyone would like to understand the archaeology of mental illness and how it came to become so, please read Foucault's Madness and Civilization and you will understand how language transforms human experience... of course most social science research thereafter, including my own, is proof of that.
***** Do yourself a favour and write less pretentiously. Recent scientific literature indicates that florid language doesn't actually make you seem intelligent.
strange how the image of Buddha was shown when spoken about the discovering of true self, sort of misleading, as the Buddha actually discovered that there is no true self. Hence, end of struggle, start of liberation.
That is not entirely true. The true self is the soul (not the mind), which is connected to the supersoul (= God), therefore it is the same as the supersoul, therefore everyone and everything is God --> liberation.
It is a good introductory documentary but it does focus on the more sensational aspects of Foucault's work - ignoring The Archeology of Knowledge, The Order of Things and The Birth of the Clinic. Its time for a new more balanced documentary film of Foucault, or even a film/television series looking at his life and work.
Agreed. Also almost no one covers his late acceptance of liberal conceptions of Rights theory if for nothing else than a line of defense against wrongful attacks from power.
When the video mentions Foucault's last works as focusing on art, to which works specifically is this referring? History of Sexuality? Also, does anyone know the piano piece being played in the video?
Could someone please direct me to a link or give me a little more information on Herbert Gilbert (?), this man who filmed himself dying of aids? I can't seem to find any information on him on the internet. Thank you to whoever can point me in this direction!
I don't understand how the wall inscription from Mélanie Bastian/Blanche Monnier who has apparently embryo-rounded Foucault's philosophy, is here read in English. This is Poitier in France. Is it a reconstruction for the purpose of televisualisation?
Indeed there remains the challenge of bridging sober readings of Michel Foucault's critical, theoretical insights into subjectivation and social, critical neuroscience beyond facile formulae that succumb to hypes or spontaneous overreactions to a (misperceived) "bullshit documentary" --this is actually a quite interesting, helpful introduction to making sense of MF's mitigated social constructionism, which avoids both positivistic and post-modernist extremes...
Should be more shows like this, giving an overview of great thinkers. Like the arty way its done too - better than dry academics stroking their beards.
A person need only to realize that in Foucault's era people who were diagnosed insane were routinely lobotomiesed, put in restraints, electroshock treatment. He was not the first or only person to criticize the arbitrary ideas of insanity. Laing pointed out the absurdities as well. A similar absurdity is in his other critique of sexuality, his critique of prisons. Paglia is really contrary because Foucault used a structuralist arguement while she relied on an a priori argument. The fact that she can't see through her own frames makes me cringe hearing her idiotic rant against Foucault. I use a priori arguments mostly but I do not make the conclusion Paglia makes. Foucault is actually especially useful for the highly nuanced cautious universalist because ignorant forms of universalism is a very popular sophistry.
Musique du film Camille Claudel, de 37,2 aussi... - Je ne suis pas fou Ma réalité est différente de la votre... Antonin Artaud a du leur dire mais ils ne l'ont pas cru...
We have a documentary about a philosopher which has been careful to avoid explaining anything about his actually philosophy. One of Foucault's points was that what we think of as unusual at one time may be completely normal in another. So its irrelevant whether he was gay or used drugs. Another point was that biography teaches us very little about the meaning of an author's work, so a documentary about him being a bit of a bad boy is doubly uninteresting.
I used to know a former U.S. Pentagon White House advisor , who in a meeting said:[quote] "In all my years at the Pentagon , we were like a bunch of Ants crawling on a Hollow Log floating doen a River toward a Waterfall...Yet we all Believed we were 'In Control." 12:12. The Performance of Aretau.
I stand on the brink of humanity. ignorance is bliss. I only wish I was stupid. I only wish I could accept death. I strain against it, grinding my teeth at the sights and sounds of the human condition. fighting it. destroying myself to understand what cannot be understood by human beings. I am god. I am the light. I am the absence of good and evil
@@linkqJ If they're as intelligent and sophisticated as you, make sure they have the safety off, and the mags loaded properly. And remember to wash your hands.
The title along with the use of the term "labyrinth" both being metaphors attaching him to nietzsche, although I'm not sure its accurate to compare the two men. Untimely Meditations is the work that greatly influenced Foucault, yet its not one of Nietzches mature philosophical works such as BGE, GM, T, AC, or EC. Beyond Good and Evil is an extremely ironic title being that Nietzsche absolutely despised socialist, as can be seen multiple times through the book BGE. To Nietzsche, Foucault would fall under the category of the people w/ socialistic sympathies being the fatalism of the weak willed with their inward self-contempt and resentment not compassion as their guiding psychological will.
Reader, before you watch please understand that you will understand nothing of his works from this film. This is entertainment only. You can see some people below, who could obviously not be said to be doing any real thought, but are entertaining themselves, getting wrapped up in more enjoyment after the movie has ended. Do not be enticed by them. Treat this as you would any mindless indulgence, if you believe in such things.
I would say, it’s basically an exercise of their autonomy. Autonomy is a fundamental aspect of being human. Do not be sad or frustrated about that my friend. Some things we like, some we don’t. I personally appreciate history of philosophers:)
And yet no mention whatsoever of Nietzsche despite the title taking the name from his work and despite his influence to Foucault's own writings?? A good documentary but given the title, that omission was a disappointment.
Well, whatever the controversy he aroused, it seems that Foucault’s personal “human experience” led rather to a personal experience of the “scourge of human existence in the 20th century.” Is it really a scholarly legitimate exercise to experience the antisocial excesses of men (especially) through personal immersion? Or is it excusing impulses to human perversion in oneself?
Exactly right. I don't know how anybody these days can defend him. I don't know how anybody ever could defend him, for he was quite open about his beliefs regarding age of consent laws.
Nobody has ever defended him. The Greek philosophers are still read and respected and were also users of children. Nobody defends these men because there is no need to do such a thing. Everyone knows it is wrong but there is no group that has not done this horrible thing. If anything, Foucault may have given you important tools to undo the deep held religious ideologies- those things are still the main source of support/hiding place for people who hurt children.
@20.00 the Judge Demans the prisoner admit his guilt...in California the Criminal Charges against even a Shoplifter reads "you are a threat and danger of the public peace or safety of the State of California. Foucault is 100% correct.
Right and wrong are not about adhering to a set of transcendental code of ethics, but rather about who has the most power. As Stalin once asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" when he was told that the Pope objected to his actions. Mao Zedong also pointed out that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. While communism is brutal and inhumane in some senses, it is closer to real existence than any other philosophical worldview. The Chinese serial killer Yang Xinhai infamously stated, "Society is not my concern." He intuitively grasped that by setting himself apart and resigning from being part of Chinese society, he was placing himself in a realm beyond good and evil. Was what he did wrong? Yes, it was by conventional standards but not by the code of ethics he chose to embrace. How do you judge someone who refuses to admit to being part of society, who doesn't subscribe to the code of ethics they are expected to uphold? He was put to death by the government because they could, because their gun was bigger than his. Ultimately, it's about might is right; everything else is just bells and whistles and navel fluff. And who has the ultimate power? G-d. There you go. Reified transcendentalism!
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It's funny, having learnt Foucault through a French university education in philosophy, that this Anglosaxon perspective completely omits 'Les mots et les choses', translated as 'The Order of Things' - in France, this is often seen among philosophers as the work that defined Foucault's approach. Read it and you understand the method and, of course, the madness in it, that he employed in his other works. For a documentary of only 40 minutes, I'm left wondering whether it wasn't simply the lure of the gory details that drove the film makers, rather than a desire to reveal the man, of whom such details are an integral part, but only one. And also, I would be of those who think the overarching influence of Nietzsche upon his thought should also be included. But a very enjoyable watch, thanks to the uploader.
+Chris Rob I agree. Also nothing much is mentioned about his work on ethics.
+Chris Rob Thanks I am going to read it
Exactly. One of his most beautiful and instigating works. But do you really believe that the mind of the America academia who has numerous suspicious "thinkers" idolized can understand "Les Mots er le Choses"? "Ceci n'est pas un pipe. :)
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals certainly influenced him
This documentary loves to be dramatic. It's just laughable!
I love the way this is delivered. Feels ike Old Top Gear.
Were you a drug-dealer?
This documentary is why I love CZcams: you can find old gems.
I knew they would have something on Foucault.
yeah, and they let users steal it all and upload it..great buisness model.Fuck youtube.
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"The madness of desire, insane murders, the most unreasonable passions - all are wisdom since they are a part of the order of nature. Everything that morality and religion, everything that a clumsy society has stifled in man, revives in the castle of murders. There man is finally attuned to his own nature."
--Michael Focault, 'Madness and Civilization'
Good quote. I have been attracted by Taoism, for instance, which has an appeal to a natural order. The natural order would include madness of desire, insanity, murder, unreasonable passions, but they depend on circumstances. For instance, a murder would be in response to circumstances, according to the Taoist view. To commit a murder simply for the fun of it, would not be according to nature. Water and how it behaves is usually the image used to teach about the Tao or the Way. Insanity is a special case, however, but it could be compared to cancer. If both these conditions are untreatable, then there isn't much we can do. How long should the family care for the insane person? When do they turn over their responsibility to the state? This calculation what be a practical one, not simply an emotional one, for the Taoist.
I like the idea that we are all equal -- the murderers, perverts, the insane etc. This is the Catholic view, although not the common practice.
@Carpe Mundo are you saying that the natural order does not include insanity and mental illness?
This quote could easily be attributed to Antonin Artaud
Quoting Madness and Civilization like that can say nothing about the thought of Focault. In the book he is channeling historical views on madness. Thus. The quote could be attributed to any period and any people filtered through the mind of Focault.
1:44 could've sworn that Mr. Bean was interviewing Foucault
Havent you seen the Jordan Peterson interview
Same
I think this is the most entertaining documentary I've ever seen. Thank you so much domakesaythink00
If one knew nothing of Foucault before watching this documentary, not much would have changed after watching it. This is all breadth and no depth - Foucault's legacy would have been better served if the makers of this documentary perhaps focused on his theories of sexuality, justice or class. Still, I guess this was watchable.
I would personally rather say his later inquiries about genealogy, parrhesia, the hermeneutics of the self etcetera. At least, is it is depth you're looking for.
If also takes into account that this doc was made in 1993 by the BBC one could enjoy it a bit more, actually, I found it fascinating in context
Thanks for uploading this great doc.
UMMM,I'll get back to this. Well presented. Thank-you.
Finally a documentary on a philosopher which looks not only at the biography, but makes a good effort to bring the ideas as well down to us commoners. Very good.
A good solid introduction into Foucault's work.
Thanks for sharing this video.
thanks for the upload
Foucault was a man with an innate desire for justice and truth in that, which I can greatly identify with.
I keep watching you vids, nice
Good introduction to who he was as I begin to read his works. Thanks.
greatly interesting, thank you
Verbiage. Mercy. Amen
there's a great wolf sound at the beggining... Enjoy :)
love the Gabriel Yared music throughout the documentary.
Superb documentary. Thank you for posting.
you're welcome. and nice avatar :)
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1:46 didn't know Rowan Atkinson was interested in philosophy.
Rowan Atkinson is a Proffessor .
It's wild that this dude had such a huge impact on culture and society.
A doc focusing on the personal life of Foucault. In Foucault's eyes: could there possibly be anything less interesting--more loathesome? He would say this is completely missing the point, an approach pandering to temporal, personal details while caring little for ideas.
People don't tend to like child abusers.
I have read and absorbed a lot of Foucault. A lot. And I did love this video. Just a few moments of cliche here and there, but so much value is in this please see it.
just love the gate keepers
I remember watching this when it was first broadcast, they don't make them like this anymore
17:49 "As a scholar, ........" How ironic!!!!
Fascinating
curiosity killed the cat
Insightful doc, I liked the Ship of fools issue for some reason reminds me of the world partys song Ship of fools
+Rene Perez reminded me of the Grateful Dead song
thanx john!
also reminds one of the Ship of State...
Great mind!!!!
Excellent documentary biography on Foucault. For anyone even slightly interested or curious about Foucault, this is a must-see.
Anyone know the name of the music at the end?
I like the idea of rejecting "ist, isms" as history shows them not to be the universal truths they were thought to be.
Foucault was a great thinker who pushed the boundaries of what is seen as mental illness...and all his experiments with drugs and eroticism etc are very fine when we look at what mental illness is and where it germinates. In fact the work of Stanislav Grof with LSD was exactly on the same lines and that is considered one of the most innovative projects in mental health. How mental health is defined as an outcome of spiritual emergences that can become spiritual emergencies, and how it can be harnessed is what Grof talked about with innumerable evidences of Shamans from the world over. And to those who do not understand about the spirit or mystical world of shamanism or the journey to the underworld, anyone who dares to push the boundaries of inquiry will only appear in-sane. I have my sympathies for those who have not reached that level of comprehension and who have utmost devotion to modern science and its verifiability, irrespective of how ethical it is or how ethically it creates mental illness out of human suffering.
In case anyone would like to understand the archaeology of mental illness and how it came to become so, please read Foucault's Madness and Civilization and you will understand how language transforms human experience... of course most social science research thereafter, including my own, is proof of that.
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***** A* you've passed!
***** Do yourself a favour and write less pretentiously. Recent scientific literature indicates that florid language doesn't actually make you seem intelligent.
I agree. Disease is a social construction. They really shouldn't have labeled him as someone who died of AIDS like that. Empiricism does not work.
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Does anyone have a pdf of guibert's secrets of a man? I couldn't find it anywhere.
strange how the image of Buddha was shown when spoken about the discovering of true self, sort of misleading, as the Buddha actually discovered that there is no true self. Hence, end of struggle, start of liberation.
Very interesting! Thanks for that!
i thought it was intentional - they were talking about lack of self
That is not entirely true. The true self is the soul (not the mind), which is connected to the supersoul (= God), therefore it is the same as the supersoul, therefore everyone and everything is God --> liberation.
@@patrickalpha1315 How can one's soul be same as the supersoul's?
Just because they are connected?
@@hasibulislam5005 Yes, all souls are connected and part of the supersoul, which is god.
Well done.👍
It is a good introductory documentary but it does focus on the more sensational aspects of Foucault's work - ignoring The Archeology of Knowledge, The Order of Things and The Birth of the Clinic. Its time for a new more balanced documentary film of Foucault, or even a film/television series looking at his life and work.
They will come. We are just at the beginning.
I agree - there is a serious lack of good audiovisual content on this philosopher. He deserves better
Agreed. Also almost no one covers his late acceptance of liberal conceptions of Rights theory if for nothing else than a line of defense against wrongful attacks from power.
Yeah, its not fair to your pedophile idol to portray him as the filthy degenerate he was.
@@KinoTechUSA69 I found the gun loving psychopath. Go beat off to your guns and anime and leave the adults to discuss philosophy.
He walked the walk
lol the projections on the bald head
Nice film about #foucault 's life, but more of his theories would be nice.
I agree with you: it is much better to read him :-)
Great documentary
The disadvantages and myriad inconvenience's of consciousness...
who is the presenter?
is this part of a series?
When the video mentions Foucault's last works as focusing on art, to which works specifically is this referring? History of Sexuality? Also, does anyone know the piano piece being played in the video?
Could someone please direct me to a link or give me a little more information on Herbert Gilbert (?), this man who filmed himself dying of aids? I can't seem to find any information on him on the internet. Thank you to whoever can point me in this direction!
It's Herve Guibert. 6:29
I want a deceitfully peaceful quiet life/
Reality Ethics AESTHETICS --- seen that way things work.
Is Allain de Botton a narrator here?
Nutz
Camille Paglia is now exclusively known for not having liked Foucault
Wow, this comment has aged poorly. Camille is today far better known than the self-abusive maniac Foucault.
@Left Pantel Greece is a socialist in debt shithole boy.
Nah I know the name as an antifeminist
@@RepublicConstitution uh. no.
@@RichardMcLamore uh, yeah commie bitch.
I never heard nobody say 'play that Camille Paglia'
I don't understand how the wall inscription from Mélanie Bastian/Blanche Monnier who has apparently embryo-rounded Foucault's philosophy, is here read in English. This is Poitier in France. Is it a reconstruction for the purpose of televisualisation?
care to elaborate?
5:53 whats the name of this guy? cant figure it out bcause of the prononciation
Indeed there remains the challenge of bridging sober readings of Michel Foucault's critical, theoretical insights into subjectivation and social, critical neuroscience beyond facile formulae that succumb to hypes or spontaneous overreactions to a (misperceived) "bullshit documentary" --this is actually a quite interesting, helpful introduction to making sense of MF's mitigated social constructionism, which avoids both positivistic and post-modernist extremes...
que massa, Nita.
17>50 That Camille Paglia was somehow suggesting Michel Foucault was the Saul Goodman of Philosophy in that time lol
Long live Foucault!
This needed more criticism. You can't call him controversial and then give all of 10 seconds to one of his critics (Paglia).
Should be more shows like this, giving an overview of great thinkers. Like the arty way its done too - better than dry academics stroking their beards.
Their food filled beards.
Is it possible to escape solipsism, if the theory is taken fully? Or is that just another construct?
was that mr. bean seated across foucault??? :))
A person need only to realize that in Foucault's era people who were diagnosed insane were routinely lobotomiesed, put in restraints, electroshock treatment. He was not the first or only person to criticize the arbitrary ideas of insanity. Laing pointed out the absurdities as well. A similar absurdity is in his other critique of sexuality, his critique of prisons.
Paglia is really contrary because Foucault used a structuralist arguement while she relied on an a priori argument. The fact that she can't see through her own frames makes me cringe hearing her idiotic rant against Foucault.
I use a priori arguments mostly but I do not make the conclusion Paglia makes. Foucault is actually especially useful for the highly nuanced cautious universalist because ignorant forms of universalism is a very popular sophistry.
I see his death, paradoxically, as more “alive” and real than the soap opera scandalised characters unaware of their own madness. Tragic.
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Musique du film Camille Claudel, de 37,2 aussi...
- Je ne suis pas fou
Ma réalité est différente de la votre...
Antonin Artaud a du leur dire mais ils ne l'ont pas cru...
We have a documentary about a philosopher which has been careful to avoid explaining anything about his actually philosophy.
One of Foucault's points was that what we think of as unusual at one time may be completely normal in another. So its irrelevant whether he was gay or used drugs.
Another point was that biography teaches us very little about the meaning of an author's work, so a documentary about him being a bit of a bad boy is doubly uninteresting.
Camile Paglia gives no detailed reason for her claims.
She is right tho. Foucault engineered his public image and he had no essence and content
Folks, please, the name of the piece playing at the beggining....? Anyone :(
oh cool haven't notice that, thanks a lot! (:
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You are welcome :)
I used to know a former U.S. Pentagon White House advisor , who in a meeting said:[quote] "In all my years at the Pentagon , we were like a bunch of Ants crawling on a Hollow Log floating doen a River toward a Waterfall...Yet we all Believed we were 'In Control." 12:12. The Performance of Aretau.
Makes you pine for the days when White House advisors were thoughtful, intellectual, and insightful.
4:21 "... within them, there is a mirror image of #society..."
26:49 "... 1975 ... America... Death Valley..."
I stand on the brink of humanity. ignorance is bliss. I only wish I was stupid. I only wish I could accept death. I strain against it, grinding my teeth at the sights and sounds of the human condition. fighting it. destroying myself to understand what cannot be understood by human beings. I am god. I am the light. I am the absence of good and evil
yet, all is lost while i travel back, with my message. you are still human. You cannot, you willnot perceive what I do, without your own experience
29:39 brilliant Rousseau reference
Why was Mr. Bean interviewing him at the beginning?
paglia is not taken seriously
hasnt been for decades.
i sincerely hope thats true. she's just awful!
...and you say that on what authority
I'm a fan of her thoughts. Each to their own
Taken seriously by whom?
Wtf are you talking about? She is great
This is exactly the king of crap Foucault would have hated, and I hate it on his behalf.
That was written 10 minutes in. Of course, I kept watching
I've never seen any other documentary of a philosopher. You can't expected a 40 min video to capture all his books and articles etc.
Can anyone please lead me to the full video of the theatre of the absurd part. Who is that? And where can I find it?
Check your nearest dumpster. 😉
@@cliffpinchon2832 ok
LSD in Death Valley: Huxley’s Doors of Perception; Brave New World.
Ironically hilarious to hear Paglia bark about someone being slick and superficial...
shut the fuck up
@Carpe Mundo Better to remain silent be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@@linkqJ Thanks for sharing. You're appreciated for who you are.
@@mikesmith-pj7xz got a 150 shooters in atlanta nigga
@@linkqJ If they're as intelligent and sophisticated as you, make sure they have the safety off, and the mags loaded properly. And remember to wash your hands.
does anyone know the music at 27:00
Damien’s quartering v Pentonville routines.
No tiene :(
The title along with the use of the term "labyrinth" both being metaphors attaching him to nietzsche, although I'm not sure its accurate to compare the two men. Untimely Meditations is the work that greatly influenced Foucault, yet its not one of Nietzches mature philosophical works such as BGE, GM, T, AC, or EC. Beyond Good and Evil is an extremely ironic title being that Nietzsche absolutely despised socialist, as can be seen multiple times through the book BGE. To Nietzsche, Foucault would fall under the category of the people w/ socialistic sympathies being the fatalism of the weak willed with their inward self-contempt and resentment not compassion as their guiding psychological will.
Reader, before you watch please understand that you will understand nothing of his works from this film. This is entertainment only. You can see some people below, who could obviously not be said to be doing any real thought, but are entertaining themselves, getting wrapped up in more enjoyment after the movie has ended. Do not be enticed by them. Treat this as you would any mindless indulgence, if you believe in such things.
I will not elaborate. I recommend not to pay attention to this document, that is all I can do here
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Can we know why people dislike that video ?
+mister x no...imagine the comments. just let it go....it is what it is.
I would say, it’s basically an exercise of their autonomy. Autonomy is a fundamental aspect of being human. Do not be sad or frustrated about that my friend. Some things we like, some we don’t. I personally appreciate history of philosophers:)
0:00 FUCKOOOOUU!!! Cries the wolf
I love how the British pronounce< meeshel Foocho.
MF is a social construct
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk, have at you!
And yet no mention whatsoever of Nietzsche despite the title taking the name from his work and despite his influence to Foucault's own writings?? A good documentary but given the title, that omission was a disappointment.
Well, whatever the controversy he aroused, it seems that Foucault’s personal “human experience” led rather to a personal experience of the “scourge of human existence in the 20th century.” Is it really a scholarly legitimate exercise to experience the antisocial excesses of men (especially) through personal immersion? Or is it excusing impulses to human perversion in oneself?
Exactly right. I don't know how anybody these days can defend him. I don't know how anybody ever could defend him, for he was quite open about his beliefs regarding age of consent laws.
Nobody has ever defended him. The Greek philosophers are still read and respected and were also users of children. Nobody defends these men because there is no need to do such a thing. Everyone knows it is wrong but there is no group that has not done this horrible thing. If anything, Foucault may have given you important tools to undo the deep held religious ideologies- those things are still the main source of support/hiding place for people who hurt children.
Why was Camille Anne Paglia in this? Weird.
@20.00 the Judge Demans the prisoner admit his guilt...in California the Criminal Charges against even a Shoplifter reads "you are a threat and danger of the public peace or safety of the State of California.
Foucault is 100% correct.
Right and wrong are not about adhering to a set of transcendental code of ethics, but rather about who has the most power. As Stalin once asked, "How many divisions does the Pope have?" when he was told that the Pope objected to his actions. Mao Zedong also pointed out that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. While communism is brutal and inhumane in some senses, it is closer to real existence than any other philosophical worldview.
The Chinese serial killer Yang Xinhai infamously stated, "Society is not my concern." He intuitively grasped that by setting himself apart and resigning from being part of Chinese society, he was placing himself in a realm beyond good and evil. Was what he did wrong? Yes, it was by conventional standards but not by the code of ethics he chose to embrace. How do you judge someone who refuses to admit to being part of society, who doesn't subscribe to the code of ethics they are expected to uphold? He was put to death by the government because they could, because their gun was bigger than his.
Ultimately, it's about might is right; everything else is just bells and whistles and navel fluff. And who has the ultimate power? G-d. There you go. Reified transcendentalism!