by director David Stewart, 1993
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- Michel Foucault’s Political Thought (2013) (foucaultnews.com)
- Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature (syntheticzero.net)
- John Searle on Foucault and the Obscurantism in French Philosophy (3quarksdaily.com)
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Thanks, it was interesting to watch. Not sure whether it made me think better or worse of Foucault though. Hopefully at least it helped to get to know him a bit better.
my pleasure, more of an introduction than a final word on the subject I would hope, the questions raised by the relationships/tensions between biography and philosophy is an intriguing one and for those of of us more focused on the “applied” end there is certainly a drive to test (as Avital Ronell might say) hypotheses with/in our own daily lives:
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see also: http://www.academia.edu/1924667/Why_is_Speaking_the_Truth_Fearless_Truth_and_Danger_in_Foucaults_Analysis_of_Parrhesia
Thanks for the links. I just had a listen to the biography discussion. It was quite nice. Ray Monk I do both like and a bit skeptic about… I remember I got a bit disappointed when I first noticed how thick (many pages) his Wittgenstein biography was.