It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[Knowledge is governed not by] a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or resistant to power, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that contains it:… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
An American professor complained that a crypto-Marxist like me was invited in the USA, and I was denounced by the press in Eastern European… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share
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