Since I go to Brooklyn College and intend (ha!) to graduate from Brooklyn College, I have to complete what is known as the “Core Curriculum,” a set of courses intended to give every undergrad a liberal arts and sciences education in a nutshell. One of these courses I am currently taking is “ The Shaping […]
After taking some time to digest all of the Foucault that we’ve taken in over the past few weeks (I must admit I’m still working on a lot of it) I’m particularly interested in the final section: Right of Death and Power Over Life. I am most interested in the way that this section helps […]
After tackling the second half of Foucault and reading through Weeks’ and Norton’s essays, I feel convinced only that there are multiple approaches to the study of sexuality. There seems to be a general agreement that understanding the history/development of the social understanding of sexuality is key, but when the subject slips into biology and […]
In the time periods explored by Foucault in Parts 1-3 of The History of Sexuality, what was constituted as socially acceptable sexual discourse was anything that would hit close to the bullseye, but not directly on it. It had become an art of verbal communication, and maybe even a gender competition about who could tickle the […]
On Foucault’s, The History of Sexuality, I first have to mention how much I liked his style of writing. I feel that so many philosophical writers become entirely too entangled in their own “brilliant” opinions, and they fail to convey not only the overarching message of their insights, but also the relevance of those insights. […]
