Michel Foucault - Cultura Para Principiantes de Canal Encuentro

Between the 1960s and 1970s, intellectuals, artists, and young people around the world questioned the limits of power and discussed individual freedoms. In this climate of cultural change, a thinker revolutionizes the study of society. Obsessed with models of discipline, he establishes a new terminology to describe familiar scenarios. Analyze the functioning of asylums, prisons, hospitals,

and nursing homes. structures that lead him to redefine the established and socially accepted power systems . Thus, in the midst of the revolutionary fervor of the 60s and 70s, the French philosopher Michel Foucault became the most celebrated thinker in the world. Model of the versatile and multifaceted intellectual. His unexpected ideas make both

the right and the left uncomfortable. From Fou onwards, it is impossible to look at the world in the same way. [Music] Foucault, son, grandson and great-grandson of doctors, had a marked destiny. But her refusal to follow family mandates caused her deep bitterness. At a very young age he discovered his homosexuality and also his

deep empathy for those who live on the margins of society. A worthy exponent of modernity, his goal was to illuminate the shadowy areas of society and at the same time joyfully celebrate what he called the festival of thought. His studies of the power system begin with the analysis of prisons. Poucault takes that model of

social disciplining and extends it in a disturbing way to the entire spectrum of social studies. Among his many interests, Foucault emphasizes the relationship between power and knowledge. Starting from the premise that knowledge is power, the question arises: how does knowledge act to articulate power? A powerful group establishes what the truth is. But there is no