Now online: the historic Chomsky (EN) - Foucault (FR) debate (& EN subtitles) | ROAR Magazine
▻http://roarmag.org/2013/05/chomsky-foucault-debate-full-video-subtitles
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_sCRdF2tVI
(With full transcript of the debate)
In 1971, with the Vietnam war in full swing and radical social movements destabilizing the social, political and cultural order throughout the Western world, Dutch philosopher Fons Elders invited two of the world’s leading thinkers — the American linguist and activist Noam Chomsky and the French social theorist Michel Foucault — to debate a thorny and perennial question: is there such a thing as an “innate” human nature, and if so, what are its implications for our ideas about power, justice, revolution, and the shape of the ideal human society?
