Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself? — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
For millenia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Since the Fall, man had accepted labor as a penance and for its power to work redemption. It was not a law… — 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
You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Man is a thinking being. The way he thinks is related to society, politics, economics, and history and is also related to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared... then one can certainly wager that man would… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The first task of the doctor is ... political: the struggle against disease must begin with a war against bad government." Man… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 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
I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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