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Dr. Christopher Watkin joins us to speak about his book, Michel Foucault, published by P&R Publishing in the Great Thinkers series. Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Although he was widely influential during his lifetime, Foucault’s philosophy has come to even greater influence and applicability in recent years within the contemporary cultural and political discourse regarding sexual ethics and identity.

Dr. Watkin is a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne. He is the author of a number of academic books in the area of modern European philosophy. Over the past few years he has written four books published by P&R Publishing, including Thinking through Creation: Genesis 1 and 2 as Tools of Cultural Critique and three books in the Great Thinkers series: Jacques Derrida (2017), Michel Foucault (2018) and Gilles Deleuze (2020).

This is Christ the Center episode 689 (https://www.reformedforum.org/ctc689)

00:00:00 Introduction
00:09:45 Foucault’s Major Works and Contributions
00:14:26 Paradigms, Worldviews, and Plausibility Structures
00:22:53 Power
00:35:16 Foucault as a Public Intellectual
00:44:36 Sexuality and Identity
00:50:21 Foucault vs. Sartre
00:53:42 Was Foucault an Atheist?
00:57:52 Was Foucault a Relativist?
00:59:49 Engaging Foucault with Scripture
01:06:17 What Can Be Gained by Studying Foucault
01:10:48 Watkin’s Work on the Social Contract
01:14:23 Conclusion