“What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both neutral and independent, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be unmasked, so that one can fight against them.”
― The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
― The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
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“How could the disciplines and the power that functions in them appear arbitrary, when they merely operate the mechanisms of justice itself, even with a view to mitigating their intensity?”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”
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