
Sexual Hegemony w/ Max Fox and Chris Nealon
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Foucault's Critique of the So-Called Repressive Hypothesis
Max: Foucault's history of sexuality admitted most of what was necessary for modern bourgeois sexuality to consolidate itself historically he argues. Chidi says that is quite interesting and it takes us just for a moment into kind of like philosophical territory but he says perhaps due to his professed Kantian leanings Foucault cultivated in an indifference toward de-differentiating the ontological from the epistemic. Max: For Chidi can't but be a question about our being and it's the question of freedom, which Sartre also struggled with at mid century France.
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