Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We demand that sex speak the truth and we demand that it tell us our truth, or rather, the deeply buried truth… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is undoubtedly the sort of error that cannot be refuted because it was hardened into an unalterable form in the long… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Politics and the economy are not things that exist, or illusions, or ideologies. They are things that do not exist and yet… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth'… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A law which excludes all dialectic and all reconciliation; which establishes, consequently, both the flawless unity of knowledge and the uncompromising division… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power)… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse… — 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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