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Susan James on Foucault and Knowledge
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Jul 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Michel Foucault's work explores a wide range of topics; it includes histories of both punishment and sex. He also wrote more abstractly about philosophical topics. One theme to which he kept returning, whatever the topic, was the nature of our knowledge. Susan James discusses this thread in his work in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
Released:
Jul 22, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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