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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 325: Michel Foucault
Description: With special guest Longinus, P&C drink and review a Belgian saison, then discuss a few essays by Michel Foucault, who many people say was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.
Longinus gives a brief biography, then the boys work through two essays: "What is Enlightenment" and "Truth and Power."
Foucault is considered a post-modernist. The boys try to unpack modernism and post-modernism, to put Foucault in context.
His writings are difficult to read. Sometimes it sounds like complete nonsense. But a few things do come out fairly clearly...