Foucault


Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self
The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978-1979
The Foucault Reader
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
The Hermeneutics of the Subject: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82
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Best Books about Capitalism
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Phun Phrench Filosophy Translations
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Michel Foucault
Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.
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Helen Pluckrose
Social Justice cannot succeed because it does not correspond with reality or with core human intuitions of fairness and reciprocity and because it is an idealistic metanarrative.
Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

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