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Foucault

Michel Foucault · French philosopher (1926–1984) · 1926–1984

Appears in 96 videos · 133 passages, 43 of them in depth.

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Dominique Pagani sees Michel Foucault as a leading actor in the ideological counter-revolution of the late 1960s, one who helped to de-Marxify the university1. He often comes back to the thesis of The Order of Things (Les Mots et les Choses): man is a recent invention bound to disappear. He sees in it an anti-humanism aimed at man, the universal and progress2. He considers the reading of Descartes in the History of Madness dishonest: Foucault cuts off the passage on madmen before Descartes puts himself on a par with the insane through dreaming3. Against the microphysics of power, he objects that a power that is everywhere is nowhere and has no unit of measure4. He links him with Deleuze in a reading of Nietzsche close to Callicles. With Clouscard, he turns the "great confinement" against the binary metre of rock. He nonetheless credits him with the title Les Mots et les Choses, a talent as an archaeologist of shifts in meaning, and the remark "Mitterrand is Vichy"5.

  1. 1"La parole est la meilleure et la pire des choses" (Esope)19 Oct 2022 · 45:21
  2. 2Freud1 Aug 2017 · 16:46
  3. 310#7 L'éco-nazillonisme "post-moderne" - Le Gorgias de Platon23 Dec 2021 · 1:57:53
  4. 4Hommage à Domenico Losurdo2 Jul 2018 · 20:36
  5. 5Left-washing : Les wokes sont-ils les plus endormis ?17 Nov 2021 · 8:27

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Paul-Michel Foucault, known as Michel Foucault, (UK: FOO-koh, US: foo-KOH; French:; 15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984) was a French philosopher, literary critic, and historian of ideas who analyzed the relationships between power, knowledge, and liberty, and how they are used as a form of social control through institutions. Sometimes called a structuralist or postmodernist, he rejected these labels and sought to critique authority without limiting himself. […]

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Talks · 5 Oct 2020Calves and Things (2): Ecologism, the highest stage of capitalism?
  1. 0:00The Order of ThingsShown in an interview where he says that man is a recent invention, a historically situated figure.
  2. 8:07The Order of ThingsA structuralist book, one of whose conclusions is that we no longer have words for things, hence its relativist theses.
  3. 15:07Declared man a recent invention destined to disappear: this is the collusion with ecologist anti-humanism.
  4. 21:32Neither ecologist nor communist but neoliberal; his anticommunism passes for subversive; he is promoted as an influential intellectual after 1968.
  5. 30:44Compared to the sophists: he seeks to please his audience rather than truth.
Series · 2 May 2019Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault
  1. 5:13Ideological blindness in a cultivated man; he establishes a break with all his predecessors, Sartre included.
  2. 16:59An emblematic thinker of '68, one of the main architects of the discrediting of historicism; he prefers space to history.
  3. 35:51His best side is that of the archaeologist, attentive to shifts in the meaning of words, such as from sovereignty to population.
  4. 43:29He only goes after progressive currents of thought; his trial of man has a precedent under the Third Reich.
  5. 1:09:14The death of man implies the reign of necessity, which is troubling because it is coherent.
Talks · 6 Oct 2020Calves and Things (3): The dictatorship of the bobotariat
  1. 0:00The Order of ThingsProjected excerpt from an interview: man would be a historically situated figure, an invention of our culture.
  2. 9:13The Order of ThingsDiverted title, taken up in the title of the book, "Les Veaux et les choses" ("Calves and Things").
  3. 18:05Cited by a participant at the starting point of a movement of expansion of capitalism.
  4. 33:29Presented as explicitly claiming liberal ideology.

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