Chomsky and Foucault talk about power

I found these great videos on YouTube today.

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6 Responses to Chomsky and Foucault talk about power

  1. newmw says:

    great post, definitely interesting to see two philosophers of such magnitude discuss their work.

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  5. dz alexander says:

    Thanks for that, which I hadn’t seen.
    Here’s a transcript of the entire talk.

    Part I
    Chomsky “Let me begin by referring” [...] Chomsky “such a theory may tell it to us”
    Part II starts directly from Part I -
    Foucault “then isn’t there a danger here” [...] Chomsky “far off the mark”
    but then skips a discussion of “legality” leading to Foucault’s “contextualizing” of ideals such as justice.
    Foucault — “the idea of justice in itself ” [...] Foucault “can’t find the historical justification”

  6. dz alexander says:

    Sorry. forgot the link –

    http://www.chomsky.info/debates/1971xxxx.htm
    Human Nature: Justice versus Power
    Noam Chomsky debates with Michel Foucault 1971

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