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PREMIUM-Episode 49: Foucault on Power and Punishment

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Nature of Motivation

Foucault describes himself as a Nietzschean. One of the criticism of Foucault relies on a kind of interpretation of the deterministic dynamic that all power is Newtonian essentially. The motivation is because there are these powers that we're being subjected to and influencing us to do things in certain ways, he says.

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