Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture, Part 2 of 7

This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligable distortions in the tape.
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[@MrMoodMan]

00:36 Thats what I usually get out of Hegel too.

[@SweetandFitting]

If the format and garbled sections are putting you off, I'd suggest acquiring a copy of the hermeneutics of the subject, where you can find everything this talk includes, in much more detail.

[@rivermitchell1631]

where?'

[@shakeyourdimsims]

Legend. thank you a million times for your upload

[@Rybys]

in this words born out of passion I find great solace, pity for the missing parts.

[@Clairski3]

I like how he relates back to Plato and Socrates - it just goes to show how long we have battle with 'the Self', trying discover who we are and what we mean.

[@sweetlittle]

Total mess- unlistenable. Sounds like its being fast forwarded half the time

[@yukily07]

Thank you very much for posting.

[@CTABPOGIN]

the audio becomes crazy here! good material, thanks

[@eravulgachris]

Only 11% of those who watched part 1 made it to part 2, 70% of those to part 3, 56% of those to part 4, and then, by some hermeneutically obtuse miracle, 110% of those to part 5. What can it mean!?

[@bhavikasicka7871]

Can anyone please share the Greek word he mentioned (to care for oneself)?

[@123jataylor]

ah cassettes! i miss you. x

[@bentozaful]

I laughed pretty hard when he came to Hegel, and seeing what you meant!

[@GeorgeProev]

Some of the parts that were skipped can be deduced from the transcripts of his lectures at the Collège de France.

[@rivermitchell1631]

where can one find them? are the lectures in English? thx

[@essdearr]

Well, however mr scientist. The reason is that someone e.g linked part 5 to his/her friends, and by that added views. You cannot see the views on a particular youtube video as a result causal relations.

[@TheMeEvan]

Turning captions on is recommended for comedic purposes. His accent confuses the interpreting program creating some hilariously inaccurate phrases.

[@essdearr]

Wow, that's innovative!

[@essdearr]

How did you come up with these figures?

[@nicholashenry5745]

no, it must just be the tape player on your computer.

[@snaidin]

can´t hear!

[@Alias24288]

what is the Greek word he is saying..how is it spelled? epimilay..something. help!

[@scioarete7987]

I can help you after work

[@scioarete7987]

Epimeleia heautou

[@batsspiderssweety3784]

Epimeleia Eautou (read - Epimélia Eaftú). Επιμέλεια Εαυτού in Greek.

[@kyberuserid]

It's false (at least I subjectively view it so) that the distortions are negligible. After a minute of it in this one, I decided not to continue. I'm not a fan of Foucault though.

[@eravulgachris]

By looking at the "views" stats on each part of the video and comparing them. I assume that in the intervening 3 months my figures have now become impertinent. Whether they ever were shall now be a problem for an archaeologist of knowledge.

[@dondealga]

From the transcript: "2.04 of work trick"

[@bhavikasicka7871]

So basically he's just saying we should be putty in our own hands, that's how I'm interpreting this.

[@123jataylor]

I like actually got it, id explain but, you know its kind of one of those things you've got to discover for yourself, maybe one day youll get to the place where me and michel are coming from, yeah?

[@59media]

Pity about the bloody awfull fucking around with the button, This a nightmare. Resign and let someone normal record them. This is useless.

[@TheMeEvan]

Yes, he had an esoteric seizure.

[@travisfitzwater8093]

So I hear my comments just now at the 2 minute 22 second mark answering his question what are we. We are like monkeys version 2.0 and we are in a matrix for the purpose of entertaining the makers of The matrix.

[@eravulgachris]

I'd say you're a riot at partys.

[@ajones747]

this is a dead loss

[@essdearr]

+1 :D