THE VIDEO SHELF · foucault philosophy
PHILOSOPHY - Michel Foucault
A School of Life short introducing Michel Foucault, who questioned assumed progress in how society treats madness, medicine and sexuality.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a simple entry point to Foucault, especially on mental health and institutionalization.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- The School of Life
- Topic
- foucault philosophy
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Yes and no. Check out Foucault. He was a radical philosopher that discussed the treatment of mental health and was a critic of institutionalization. I don't know enough about him to agree or disagree with him, but he is an influential point of view. [VIDEO]
jadedhacker on Hacker News · 2018-05
In American society increasingly mistakes intelligence for human worth (2016)And this is quite honestly a good things. Wait before you downvote. Hear me out the current system is horrible and what it determines as insane people is a product of such system. Back in the Middle Ages when we had a different approach to …
yurielt on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
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