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Episode #122 ... Michel Foucault pt. 2 - The Order of Things

Philosophize This!

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Discursive Is a Fancy Word for Talking About Discourse

Foucot says that in our world there's a dicodome between what others would later call the articulatable and the visible. Discursive is just a fancy word for talking about discourse, but fucot almost always uses the word discourse with the word scientific preceding it. In other words, we live in a world where so many people around him are worshipping at the altar of science. See, because another thing we missed out on by going over the logical posivists so quickly is that it wasn't just the logical positivists that were sceptical of the last couple of hundred years of philosophy. There were many thinkers around the early twentieth century that thought this entire

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