The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political willof others; it is, through the analyses that he does in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
On the level of investigative results, John Boswell's methodology has led to the discovery that what has been called the repression 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
The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
[John Boswell] introduction of the concept of "gay" (in the way he defines it) provides us both with a useful instrument of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The way people really think is not adequately analyzed by the universal categories of logic. Between social history and formal analyses of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Methodologically speaking, the rejection by [John] Boswell of the categorical opposition between homosexual and heterosexual, which plays such a significant role in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If I open a book and see that the author is accusing an adversary of "infantile leftism" I shut it again right… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what… — 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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