Homenaje a Michel Foucault | UBtv. Libros de Michel Foucault digitalizados y listos para descargar (Biblioteca Pijama Surf) Michel Foucault fue uno de los pensadores más importantes del siglo XX, alguien a quien podría caracterizarse como teórico del poder, un iconoclasta que supo señalar los mecanismos sutiles por los cuales la dominación, la sujeción, la corrección, la disciplina, la vigilancia y otras manifestaciones del control funcionan en nuestra vida, individual y socialmente, incluso o sobre todo ahí donde menos presentes los creemos. Las ideas de Foucault han tenido eco especialmente en disciplinas como la sociología y la historia y, en menor medida, en la ciencia política y la teoría literaria, un abanico un tanto amplio que da cuenta, por un lado, de la curiosidad intelectual del francés pero sobre todo de su fidelidad a un puñado de aspectos o fenómenos de la vida social.
Sin más, compartimos a continuación estos libros en formato PDF, encontrados en diversos sitios de Internet, de un autor de lectura imprescindible. Historia de la locura en la época clásica I Raymond Roussel Las palabras y las cosas. Michel Foucault’s Controversial Life and Philosophy Explored in a Revealing 1993 Documentary. Michel Foucault’s colorful life and hugely influential work were both struggles against limitation—the limits of language, of social structures and stultifying historical identities. As such, he managed to provoke scholars of every possible persuasion, since he called into question all positive programs—the ancient imperial, feudal, and liberal humanist—while steadfastly refusing to replace them with comprehensive alternative systems.
And yet systems, social institutions of power and domination, were precisely the problem in Foucault’s estimation. Through his technique of raiding archives to produce an “archaeology of knowledge,” Foucault showed how every institution is shot through with what William E. Connolly calls “arbitrary… systemic cruelty.” You can find Michel Foucault: Beyond Good and Evil listed in our collection, 1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.. via Critical Theory Related Content:
Strong reading: Michel Foucault - The Order of Things - Part 1. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault. Original Title: Les Mots et les choses [words and things]. Published in French in 1966, and in English in 1970. I feel a little stuck trying to summarize this book. On the one hand, there is a vast amount of very specific information about some very important things. On the other hand, one could basically sum up his point in a couple of sentences, do a few of those clapping/sliding of hands together things they do in the movies when there is something dramatically dusty that needed finishing being finished, and be done with it.
While typing up my notes from the book I had the same feeling I’d had while reading it, that I could have just read the second half and through it understood the whole first without having had to suffer through reading the blasted thing. So, I’m going to try to do a combo chapter-by-chapter kind of a thing as well as a sort of a bullet-pointed highlights reel/ talking points list. Order: Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self.
Image by Lucas Barroso Félix, via Wikimedia Commons Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations. He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for posterity: These last lectures are also available on YouTube (in audio format). One of Foucault's more controversial and memorable books was Discipline and Punish (1977), which traced the transition from the 18th century use of public torture and execution to--less than 50 years later--the prevalence of much more subtle uses of power, with a focus on incarceration, rehabilitation, prevention, and surveillance. Here he is in 1983 commenting on that book (thanks for the link to Seth Paskin).
Would you like to support the mission of Open Culture? Related Content: El filósofo enmascarado: entrevista clandestina a Michel Foucault. Le courage de la vérité- Cours de Michel Foucault au Collège de France (1984) | Entre-là. Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self. Foucault quotes 2. December 2001 'But then, what is philosophy today - philosophical activity, I mean - if it is not the critical work of thought on itself?
And if it does not consist in the endeavour of knowing how and to what extent it might be possible to think differently, rather than legitimating what is already known? There is always something ludicrous in philosophical discourse when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it, or when it presumes to give them naively positivistic instruction. But it is its right to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it. Michel Foucault. (1992) [1984]. The Use of Pleasure. The History of Sexuality Volume 2, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, pp. 8-9. November 2001 'For some people, writing a book is always taking a risk, for example the risk of not finishing it. Michel Foucault. (1994) [1984]. October 2001 Michel Foucault. (1994) [1978]. Michel Foucault: la máxima aspiración del poder es la inmortalidad - 21.09.2012 - lanacion.com.
¿Por qué usted, sin ser antropólogo, se interesa más, desde un punto de vista filosófico, en la estructura de las instituciones que en los mecanismos evolutivos? -Lo que trato de hacer -y siempre traté de hacer desde mi primer verdadero libro, Historia de la locura en la época clásica- es poner en tela de juicio por medio de un trabajo intelectual diferentes aspectos de la sociedad, mostrando sus debilidades y sus límites. De todas maneras, mis libros no son proféticos y tampoco un llamado a las armas. Me irritaría intensamente que pudiera vérselos bajo esa luz. La meta que se proponen es explicar del modo más explícito -aun cuando a veces el vocabulario sea difícil- las zonas de la cultura burguesa y las instituciones que influyen directamente sobre las actividades y los pensamientos cotidianos del hombre.
-La palabra clave de todos sus libros parece ser "poder", ya se lo entienda en el sentido de poder disciplinario, poder de la medicina mental o poder omnipotente de la pulsión sexual?