World Philosophy Day 18th November 2021

This Thursday is World Philosophy Day and to celebrate this day I've decided to do something more momentous. So I'm starting this blog on Foucault because I've been referring to him when discussing intersex people and issues on my LGBTQIAPD2SPHILOSOPHY blog but I can't expand on him and all of his philosophy on there. I first came across him in my AS Sociology course and textbooks so I've been interested in him for nearly two decades. Therefore I was pleased when Susan James briefly taught him on the MA Political Philosophy course that I sat in on. The advantage of this was that I could then appreciate him from both a sociological point of view (he is seen as a leading sociological thinker) and a philosophical point of view. Foucault himself was a philosopher with a diploma in Psychopathology from the Paris Institute of Psychology. So he incorporates psychology into his theories which also fascinates me because I've always been interested in the subject and took it at AS Level. Feminists draw heavily on his work which I haven't so far but then that doesn't mean I haven't been aware of his thought. Although I have a feminist blog (Marching As One) there's a limit to how much I can focus on Foucault there since there are competing issues to discuss on it. My Philosophy of Sociology and Political Philosophy blog is broader in scope and deals with current issues and a range of background theories and thinkers. So Foucault fits well into my educational background in Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Feminism. And he was gay so that's a plus right there! 🙂🌈 

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https://lgbtqiapd2sphilosophy.blogspot.com/

http://marchingasonefeministblog.blogspot.com/

https://philosophypoliticsandsociology.blogspot.com/

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