Michel Foucault "Madness & Civilization" (First Half)

[@pipersolanas3322]

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

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

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

[@Deliriummary]

Damn man your channel is by farrrr the BEST on the whole KZbin

[@enlightenedanalysis]

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]

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]

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

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

I read this entire book and it was incomprehensible to me

[@stultiferaa.naviss]

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

[@nozakatable]

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

[@umpoucodefilosofia6781]

interesting new intro music choice

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

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

[@ollotheollo]

Amazing, thank you very much

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

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?

[@smkxodnwbwkdns8369]

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]

you met chomsky????

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

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

[@trindrf4901]

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]

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]

​@@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]

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

[@punkpoetry]

​@@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!

[@prajwalprasad3249]

This helped ! Thank you

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

Happy to hear it!

[@charlieintheclouds]

🙏

[@MrStrocube]

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.

[@maria9567]

Nice kitty “mrrrrewp” comment on chapter 4.

[@thisisfractopia]

New intro theme, cool!

[@charlesknause977]

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]

Lepers have always been considered Holy.

[@abcrane]

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