Writer Quotes by Michel Foucault

10 Writer quotes by Michel Foucault

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Foucault’s terse reflections distill his complex ideas into bite‑size nuggets, giving readers a quick glimpse of how language shapes authority.

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In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within…

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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are…

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If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have…

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…

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The book is not simply the object that one holds in one's hands, and it cannot remain within the little parallelpiped that…

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“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to…

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“As soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different,…

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The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal…

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Literature is a form of language that breaks with the whole definition of genres as forms adapted to an order of representations,…

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“To imagine writing as absence seems to be a simple repetition, in transcendental terms, of both the religious principle of the inalterable…

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One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

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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:…

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“But a punishment like forced labour or even imprisonment – mere loss of liberty – has never functioned without a certain additional element of…

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Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

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I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

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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…

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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…

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“It was a matter of showing by what conjunctions a whole set of practices-- from the moment they became coordinated with a regime of…

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“The preferred medications were those that forestalled corruption. We know 'as a result of more than three thousand years of experience that Myrrh and…

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“The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than…

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“Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with…

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Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

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Are the prisons overpopulated, or is the population over-imprisoned ?

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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…

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Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

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