Talk:Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France

Discussion elsewhere
Some discussion about this page at my talk page: User talk:Oiyarbepsy/2014 Oiyarbepsy (talk) 04:26, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Wiki link?
Foucault's lectures at the Collège de France

Could someone please look into this; why does this link to the main article not work. Thanks! Mootros (talk) 11:48, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't understand what you're trying to do here. The main article link you posted is a link to the article the people are already reading. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 16:31, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Apologies. My fault... I think I should called it a day. It's fixed now. Many thanks for stopping by! Mootros (talk) 17:25, 5 November 2014 (UTC)

Great work
Very much improved. Nice work. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 05:30, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Society Must Be Defended
What is the "second mode" by which sovereign history acts as a "ceremonial tool" for sovereign power? AlexanderGerten (talk) 20:02, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Re: 'corporation' and its derivation from India
-- The concept of a corporation no doubt existed in India, but the English word 'corporation' is not therefore 'derived' from Sanskrit: derivation of a word specifically refers to an etymological relation, which does not exist here (see here for a quick etymological derivation of 'corporation'; I can provide more reliable sources if needed). I have rewritten that sentence to refer to the concept of a 'corporation', not the actual English word. I hope you can agree on this, so no more back-and-forth reverting will be necessary. - KIeio (talk) 11:39, 9 June 2016 (UTC)

New section needed: "The Hermeneutics of the Subject. 1981-1982"
Can the editors of the page, please, add this seminar? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:8581:1400:C9C3:680:353F:F59C (talk) 17:32, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Rambling nonsense
This article is now, alas, full of the sort of rambling incoherent rubbish that spreads across Wikipedia. It needs to be drastically cut back. Pinkbeast (talk) 18:02, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Significant work needed
Hey all! I'm fairly new to wiki-editing, beyond minor corrections. It looks to me like this page could use a major overhaul. For one, it doesn't even list all of the CdF lectures (see below). There's a lack of citations, as the maintenance flag thing notes. And the summaries are inconsistent, ranging from a single paragraph to an entire essay. I'd love help fix it up! However, at the moment I'm a bit busy with term papers, hence how I ended up here in the first place. I thought a quick and easy addition would be listing the rest of the lectures, even if I don't have time to write them up right now.

In the meantime, I have a few ideas for more extensive improvements to the page, and was wondering if anyone might be interested in chipping in. Two ideas off the top of my head: One, keep the summaries short, no more than a few paragraphs. Again, I'm new to editing, so maybe I'm off here, but it seems to me that if we wanted longer descriptions, those should go in their own pages. There's certainly enough material for it (I assume?). Two, adding a brief historical blurb for each lecture. There are some common ways of dividing F's work, particularly: archaeology (knowledge), genealogy (power, power/knowledge), and ethics (the subject, subjectivity). Something that places each lecture in this progression, connects the lectures with the monographs they produced, and maybe a bit of where Foucault himself was. This could help contextualize the lectures better.

Anyways, if this interests anyone, let me know! I would really like to at least get the rest of the lectures listed here for now, so I might do that in the next day or two if I don't hear back from anyone.

Thanks!

Missing Lectures
 * The Abnormals (1974-75)
 * Subjectivity and Truth (1980-81)
 * The Government of Self and Others (1982-83)
 * The Courage of Truth (1983-84) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chippy87 (talk • contribs) 03:52, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Original research
This article contradicts Wikipedia guidelines and policies (WP:POLICYLIST). Specifically, independent reliable sources are needed that provide a critical response to this topic, or that discuss this topic in detail. And editors are supposed to report what reliable sources say about this or any other topic. Instead, the contents of this page are originally written essays and interpretations by one or more Wikipedia editors. This is original research WP:OR. As such, this page needs to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia standards. Please see WP:GNG and WP:NBOOK. Personally, I have tried to find sources that cover this broad topic and I am unable to find any. There are some sources that discuss certain lectures, but I am not seeing any about this topic as a whole. And even the number of sources per lecture might be paltry. ---Steve Quinn (talk) 16:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

I removed the original research in this article. I added one source that I could find that discusses the topic. More sources are needed per WP:OR, WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK for this topic to have a stand alone article. I suspect that more sources can be found. Regards Steve Quinn (talk) 19:09, 11 March 2024 (UTC)