Michel Foucault | History of Sexuality | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks

"The History of Sexuality" is Michel Foucault's examination of the history of discourse about and practice of sexuality over the past three centuries. While sexuality was open in the seventeenth century and relatively closed through the Victorian era, it might appear that sexuality in the modern era has been open. In fact, with the increase in the discourse about sexuality in modern times, Foucault argues we live in a new age of repression.
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00:37 The text
02:54 The frankness of the seventeenth century
03:48 The dark night of the bourgeoise (p. 2)
04:46 Perhaps some progress was made by Freud(p.3)
08:16 But it appears to me that the essential thing (p.4)
11:08 Western man has been drawn for three centuries(p. 12)
11:59 One day on 1867, a farm hand from Lapcourt(p. 18)
15:49 Though the various discourses (p.21)
16:52 The medicalization(p.26)
17:36 Modern society is perverse(p.28)
18:26 Modern centers of power
19:00 Let us put forward a general working hypothesis(p.41)
20:25 We shall attempt to constitute (p.44)
21:21 The word power (p.53)
22:45 Power is the moving substrate (p.54)
24:49 What this means for sexuality in the modern world(p.60)
27:40 There is not on the one side(p.60)
29:41 One of the essential traits(p.60)
30:40 With this analysis (p.77)
32:52 The irony of this deployment(p.97)
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[@johnbrown4568]

Thank you Dr. Hicks for your detailed analysis of Foucault’s thinking regarding this matter.

[@craxd1]

The days of Queen Victoria's father and uncles, at least in the elite upper class, had become pretty wild and perverted with the rise of libertinism. It was said that she was ashamed of this, and after she took the throne, she wished for the royal household to clean up its act. That was also the time of the rise of the evangelicals as well. This type of behavior, in Britain, was swept under the rug, where it was moved into private settings such as the many clubs close to St. James's. However, stating this, Victoria's son, Edward VII, was quite the rake and handful, where he would travel to France to visit their brothels. He obtained the nickname of Dirty Bertie over this. During the 1960s, however, with what was being taught at uni by the likes of Marcuse, we see how that has turned the world back to libertinism, again.

[@seangreene5769]

Thanks for making this video I’ve struggled to read postmodernists like him so this gives a great primer. Perhaps I need to read your book about postmodernism, but I would’ve loved to hear your critique/thinking on this.

[@SavingCommunitiesDS]

As there is no objective reality to Foucault, there are no logical reasons for sexual mores. Never mind which mores led to societies advancing and which led to decline.

[@johanngizurarson7235]

@SavingCommunitiesDS That is not true (there is an academic text by a man of Greg Seals that goes deep into this misunderstood part of Foucault). Rather Foucault believes that truth is constructed through discourse, preferably between agents with opposite view. That is spot on and one of the many reasons Foucault is one of my intellectual hero (along with Spinoza, Descartes, Russel, Nietsche and John Stuart Mill). And please stop refering to Foucault as a post-modernist, a term himself rejected when asked to describe himself. He referred to himself as a Nietschean.

[@SavingCommunitiesDS]

@@johanngizurarson7235, truth is not constructed; it simply is. At best, an _understanding_ of the truth is arrived at, and rarely by battles between partisans. Rather, by people genuinely interested in the truth more than in partisanship.

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@@SavingCommunitiesDS Truth-seeking is a lifelong endevour. It is like a ship sailing along the coast-line in a fog, yeah it sees the outline of the land but barely and sometime it seem like it doesnt.cientific endevour is also continual, as it science is a self-correcting mechanism. In the genome e.g. when I was in grad school ca. 2000, people thought that introns was junk DNA with no inherent function, well that has been disproven now. Pluto was also back then said to be a planet. After we got better telescopes and more data, it clearly isn't. Prague is not the capital of Czechoslovakia, rather today it is the capital of Czechia (after the separation of Czechoslovakia in 1993). Facts are fluid, moral attitude change, people change, and science/technology move on and progress (in some field regress).

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@@SavingCommunitiesDS damn your type make me sick 🤓

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@@johanngizurarson7235 Sometimes perceptions are foggy, sometimes they are clear, and sometimes the fog is constructed by people for whom truth goes against their agenda. Foucault was a member of the French Communist Party, and his game was to reject the label of Marxism while embracing its core tenets.

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