And that really is the theme of these thinkers.
That there, ironically, if I can put it that way,
are attempts at liberation wind up being steps in our own oppression.
Our attempts at liberation wind up being steps in our own oppression.
I wanna just start off by situating a in relation
to some of the other theorists you've been hearing about and
philosophical traditions you know about,
and that for me is to emphasize that Foucault is
a Nietzschean thinker, and Nietzsche was for
Foucault, an important instrument for
getting out of historicism and getting out of a mode
of thinking that the generation before his had developed as
an extension of Hegelian Marxism So
these were thinkers who really emphasized how
the formation of the self was deeply formed by or
conditioned by temporal dimensions, and
then by understanding temporal dimensions,
one had a confrontation either with politics or
with authenticity, with freedom or with struggle.
That was the generation that preceded.
So Horkheimer and Adorno, writing in the Nazi period,