Michel Foucault Beyond Good and Evil 1993)

[@cjstevens6405]

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.

[@mercuriafilms]

+Chris Rob I agree. Also nothing much is mentioned about his work on ethics.

[@Heideggerr1]

+Chris Rob Thanks I am going to read it

[@AnaLuizaHella]

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. :)

[@neik2780]

Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals certainly influenced him

[@DarkAngelEU]

This documentary loves to be dramatic. It's just laughable!

[@dkm8703]

1:44 could've sworn that Mr. Bean was interviewing Foucault

[@omalone1169]

Havent you seen the Jordan Peterson interview

[@MOHAlesawi]

Same

[@TristenDurocher]

This documentary is why I love KZbin: you can find old gems. I knew they would have something on Foucault.

[@KussePikken666]

yeah, and they let users steal it all and upload it..great buisness model.Fuck youtube.

[@kiritanJ]

I love the way this is delivered. Feels ike Old Top Gear.

[@Johnconno]

Were you a drug-dealer?

[@DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler]

Thanks for uploading this great doc.

[@adamstein4104]

I think this is the most entertaining documentary I've ever seen. Thank you so much domakesaythink00

[@StateLaughter]

"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'

[@johnstewart7025]

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.

[@johnstewart7025]

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.

[@johnstewart7025]

@Carpe Mundo are you saying that the natural order does not include insanity and mental illness?

[@owretchedman]

This quote could easily be attributed to Antonin Artaud

[@clarkbowler157]

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.

[@nancywysemen7196]

UMMM,I'll get back to this. Well presented. Thank-you.

[@luizvalerio.poetry]

Thanks for sharing this video.

[@DxsPro]

thanks for the upload

[@bigbowlowrong]

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.

[@lautjeclause2069]

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.

[@Soul-mw8pe]

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

[@koc5000]

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.

[@wondernexus3d482]

A good solid introduction into Foucault's work.

[@JeffreySykes]

Good introduction to who he was as I begin to read his works. Thanks.

[@susanharrison5784]

I keep watching you vids, nice

[@SaturnElena]

greatly interesting, thank you

[@protestantsfailurend7890]

Foucault was a man with an innate desire for justice and truth in that, which I can greatly identify with.

[@robertanderson3905]

just love the gate keepers

[@sxnico]

love the Gabriel Yared music throughout the documentary.

[@janllh24]

I remember watching this when it was first broadcast, they don't make them like this anymore

[@debyte]

Superb documentary. Thank you for posting.

[@domakesaythink00]

you're welcome. and nice avatar :)

[@TimeLords910]

debyte hi

[@Whydontyougousetherestroom]

Fuck yeah captain beefheart

[@dominicbarnes3273]

Fascinating

[@javierthomas7414]

un genio.

[@johnjepsen4243]

Verbiage. Mercy. Amen

[@ahnaftahmidarnab6754]

1:46 didn't know Rowan Atkinson was interested in philosophy.

[@neneklampir6664]

Rowan Atkinson is a Proffessor .

[@Cantbuyathrill]

17:49 "As a scholar, ........" How ironic!!!!

[@MinnesotaEverything]

Great mind!!!!

[@DerekHunterDHChaosRiddler]

Excellent documentary biography on Foucault. For anyone even slightly interested or curious about Foucault, this is a must-see.

[@tenajyebba]

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.

[@michaeldao2249]

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.

[@geoffpoole483]

People don't tend to like child abusers.

[@camilopizarroopazo6165]

AMOR Y PAZ.

[@adamf.9835]

Well done.👍

[@reneperez2126]

Insightful doc, I liked the Ship of fools issue for some reason reminds me of the world partys song Ship of fools

[@johnbriggs1572]

+Rene Perez reminded me of the Grateful Dead song

[@jlwaddey9579]

thanx john!

[@jlwaddey9579]

also reminds one of the Ship of State...

[@sherryberry4577]

It's wild that this dude had such a huge impact on culture and society.

[@xander3002]

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.

[@dominicbarnes3273]

Very interesting! Thanks for that!

[@tangledude]

i thought it was intentional - they were talking about lack of self

[@patrickalpha1315]

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.

[@hasibulislam5005]

@@patrickalpha1315 How can one's soul be same as the supersoul's? Just because they are connected?

[@patrickalpha1315]

@@hasibulislam5005 Yes, all souls are connected and part of the supersoul, which is god.

[@Majnun74]

I like the idea of rejecting "ist, isms" as history shows them not to be the universal truths they were thought to be.

[@Fugu6000]

there's a great wolf sound at the beggining... Enjoy :)

[@apexxxx10]

kiitos

[@NlHILIST]

curiosity killed the cat

[@felipemontero9839]

Does anyone have a pdf of guibert's secrets of a man? I couldn't find it anywhere.

[@myAutoGen]

Anyone know the name of the music at the end?

[@FernandoFaria]

Nice film about #foucault 's life, but more of his theories would be nice.

[@Kingaxel1]

Great documentary

[@dunsbroccoli2588]

lol the projections on the bald head

[@Greven866]

He walked the walk

[@hansadhwanisabaprateeksha]

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.

[@LionelWitchieWardrob]

***** Shuuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttt up

[@edwardmaddocks8786]

***** A* you've passed!

[@jupitersstring2823]

***** Do yourself a favour and write less pretentiously. Recent scientific literature indicates that florid language doesn't actually make you seem intelligent.

[@awhodothey]

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.

[@user-ge9ft4cu5m]

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?

[@robkirchhof133]

I never heard nobody say 'play that Camille Paglia'

[@Donatellangelo]

Long live Foucault!

[@JamesBarrett23]

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.

[@tenajyebba]

They will come. We are just at the beginning.

[@dominicbarnes3273]

I agree - there is a serious lack of good audiovisual content on this philosopher. He deserves better

[@RepublicConstitution]

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.

[@KinoTechUSA69]

Yeah, its not fair to your pedophile idol to portray him as the filthy degenerate he was.

[@moriyokiri3229]

@@KinoTechUSA69 I found the gun loving psychopath. Go beat off to your guns and anime and leave the adults to discuss philosophy.

[@StephenCRose]

Reality Ethics AESTHETICS --- seen that way things work.

[@ricka1799]

The disadvantages and myriad inconvenience's of consciousness...

[@wishdasher]

who is the presenter? is this part of a series?

[@MegaPetchi]

I agree with you: it is much better to read him :-)

[@ROGERWDARCY]

I want a deceitfully peaceful quiet life/

[@Dagedage90]

5:53 whats the name of this guy? cant figure it out bcause of the prononciation

[@jamesmurphy6426]

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!

[@zabaks123]

It's Herve Guibert. 6:29

[@marshmelows]

17>50 That Camille Paglia was somehow suggesting Michel Foucault was the Saul Goodman of Philosophy in that time lol

[@RobertKwapich]

Is Allain de Botton a narrator here?

[@randievietti9896]

Is it possible to escape solipsism, if the theory is taken fully? Or is that just another construct?

[@luisaalvares7798]

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?

[@vicmorrison8128]

Nutz

[@hewholistenstomusic]

care to elaborate?

[@yp77738yp77739]

Emperors new clothes. Very impressive individual, managed to fool so many gullible idiots and did it with a smile on his face. 10/10 for style.

[@voraciousreader3341]

And then he personified the ultimate human experience of the 20th century by dying of AIDS. So much for male über experience. Did he also enter the “castle of murder” personally?

[@MagicFunc]

I know bait when I see it

[@yp77738yp77739]

I have no space in my head for anyone whom publicised and was proud of sexual relations with young Tunisian boys on gravestones. The most vile of creatures, to abuse defenceless young children is the lowest form of humanity and should have been euthanised for the benefit of society.

[@focas777]

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...

[@zandermcconnochie6898]

29:39 brilliant Rousseau reference

[@ordmantell6347]

This needed more criticism. You can't call him controversial and then give all of 10 seconds to one of his critics (Paglia).

[@michaellavin6038]

Camille Paglia is now exclusively known for not having liked Foucault

[@RepublicConstitution]

Wow, this comment has aged poorly. Camille is today far better known than the self-abusive maniac Foucault.

[@RepublicConstitution]

@Left Pantel Greece is a socialist in debt shithole boy.

[@omalone1169]

Nah I know the name as an antifeminist

[@RichardMcLamore]

@@RepublicConstitution uh. no.

[@RepublicConstitution]

@@RichardMcLamore uh, yeah commie bitch.

[@willcifur]

All that knowledge and all those honorary titles and the best he can do is echo the intellectual territory of de Sade. He has always struck me as a huckster that would have flourished in todays world. Every time I see the moral decay of feces on the sidewalk and needles in plant beds I think … “behold, the fruit of Foucaults wisdom”

[@FrancisE.Dec.Esquire]

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.

[@dontbeaslavetothealgorithm]

Makes you pine for the days when White House advisors were thoughtful, intellectual, and insightful.

[@lonelycubicle]

Why was Mr. Bean interviewing him at the beginning?

[@JAMAICADOCK]

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.

[@Johnconno]

Their food filled beards.

[@dominicberry5577]

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.

[@ladazimina1884]

Folks, please, the name of the piece playing at the beggining....? Anyone :(

[@ladazimina1884]

oh cool haven't notice that, thanks a lot! (:

[@hundimzug]

lada zimina You are welcome :)

[@NythamarDeOliveira]

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...

[@fabriciopontin]

que massa, Nita.

[@megavide0]

4:21 "... within them, there is a mirror image of #society..." 26:49 "... 1975 ... America... Death Valley..."

[@BettinaAscaino]

I see his death, paradoxically, as more “alive” and real than the soap opera scandalised characters unaware of their own madness. Tragic.

[@juvercinagomesbarbosaneto7200]

8

[@matthewkopp2391]

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.

[@asianaaq5088]

was that mr. bean seated across foucault??? :))

[@brcx3001]

Camile Paglia gives no detailed reason for her claims.

[@asmoncat5049]

She is right tho. Foucault engineered his public image and he had no essence and content

[@bmarq4402]

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.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

paglia is not taken seriously hasnt been for decades.

[@jlwaddey9579]

i sincerely hope thats true. she's just awful!

[@omalone1169]

...and you say that on what authority

[@bizarro20daves]

I'm a fan of her thoughts. Each to their own

[@trainerd1]

Taken seriously by whom?

[@Ravi-xf8dw]

Wtf are you talking about? She is great

[@richardouvrier3078]

Damien’s quartering v Pentonville routines.

[@richardouvrier3078]

LSD in Death Valley: Huxley’s Doors of Perception; Brave New World.

[@Larkinchance]

How is Foucault different from Genet. (A Thief's Journal)

[@geraldvanwilgen]

Why was Camille Anne Paglia in this? Weird.

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

Ironically hilarious to hear Paglia bark about someone being slick and superficial...

[@linkqJ]

shut the fuck up

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

@Carpe Mundo Better to remain silent be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

@@linkqJ Thanks for sharing. You're appreciated for who you are.

[@linkqJ]

@@mikesmith-pj7xz got a 150 shooters in atlanta nigga

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

@@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.

[@mohamedehababdelwahabgamal7024]

9:07 Bookmark

[@skstan1965]

I love how the British pronounce< meeshel Foocho.

[@cautivodelsistemah]

in Spanish please

[@voraciousreader3341]

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?

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

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.

[@pickleraspa2458]

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.

[@MrDangatang]

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?

[@cliffpinchon2832]

Check your nearest dumpster. 😉

[@MrDangatang]

@@cliffpinchon2832 ok

[@gRosh08]

Explore ...

[@LolJayl]

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.

[@Klorrnond]

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.

[@BertramShord]

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk, have at you!

[@springchickena1]

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

[@springchickena1]

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

[@chel3SEY]

Camille Paglia is totally correct in her criticisms of Foucault. But her criticisms apply equally to her own self-indulgent, half-baked, pseudo-intellectual theories which are designed to shock more than advance knowledge.

[@gregtaillon4019]

chel3SEY they actually don't. She's incredibly factually incorrect about basic things, like claiming Foucault didn't read any of the foundational Greek scholars. He read *many* - he even learned Greek (and German) to be able to read original texts. There's direct Greek content in almost all of his lectures and books.

[@kristianj.8798]

Nothing Paglia has ever said, has been correct (nor properly argued for). Perhaps that the Earth isn't flat, but that's about it. On a side-note: her way of talking is absolutely repulsive; she constantly interrupts _herself_ as if she's struggling to think coherently about whatever she's mouthing on about.

[@marksmod]

0:00 FUCKOOOOUU!!! Cries the wolf

[@yurabittovachunt1706]

33:06 - is that Colney hatch asylum