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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